Tax Letter has no ‘taboos’, called’ choices, “says Wiebe at Room – Volkskrant

Tax Letter has no 'taboos', called' choices, "says Wiebe at Room – Volkskrant

By: Joost de Vries – 09/25/14, 17:34

© anp. Secretary of State Eric Wiebe of Finance.

Nothing is as political as the tax system, as it turned out again today in the Chamber during the discussion of the tax letter from Secretary Eric Wiebe of Finance. The government is aware of it and presented their own plans, therefore, as a starting point for a search for political support. No, said Wiebe’s against the Chamber, there are no taboos in the letter, but choices.

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Cutting is done in the government, then the burden on labor down, thinks the CDA. No, the rich with a lot of savings in the bank to pay more than the payroll tax can be reduced, says the SP. Let just polluter pay and spared the working Dutchman says the Greens. Nicely, the government wants to lower labor costs, so let’s do business, say the opposition parties against Wiebe.

The Minister likes to talk, he says, but doing business is much too early. Provided the government has little faith in most of the opposition proposals. Take a flat tax, the hobbyhorse of the CDA: Wiebe’s content does not find it strong. CDA MP Eddy Hijum must not feel rejected, the State guarantees him: “Everything is negotiable, the goal counts. If the flat tax, the solution turns out to be, then that is negotiable. ” But do not count on it, he says implicitly.

It is the same for other opposition proposals, the Secretary of State wants to listen to it, but it must be cut wood content. “We are making the rounds to gauge for different choices the support. That is vey. I’ll listen to the proposals. Counts in the content. ”

Prototype
In addition, he is in no hurry. The previous

system reform took five years and produced 7,000 pages of text on. A hand truck is needed to revise the 2001 seat, said Wiebe. Also this time it is a project of the long-term. The Secretary of State wants to put together a prototype in the coming year. “To which we can see what it is, what it will do. And with a good feeling that the jobs are created. ” On this basis he hopes in the budget for 2016 ‘a few steps’ on again.

Condition for those steps is the presence of ‘kickbacks’. Tinkering with the tax machine does always have pain, financial oil should bring relief in there. Wants to reduce long term expenses by 15 billion, the cabinet but this is first euro bribe 3 to 5 billion needed. That money is not there now, and the government does not want extra cut and certainly not build up additional debt. The hope is that the economy recovers and the Government ‘windfalls’ can be collected, for example through reduced benefits as employment improves.

Illusion
Earlier in the day warned Dijsselbloem Minister of Finance is also already too much dynamism. A system review short term is impossible, he told the Chamber. “It is an illusion that it should happen in 2016 that could not. This review will go over the full width of the tax system. They contain all kinds of performance problems. ”

Like many ministers Rutte II before him, goes Secretary Wiebe’s so over the coming months and years looking for political support. His main task it is perhaps raising proportion of the VVD and PvdA positions, because the parties have mutually different ideas about the tax system. The VVD sees taxes as a necessary evil that must be kept as small as possible, the Labour Party sees it as redistribution of wealth. The opposition may of course have a say, “Everything is negotiable.”