From the trade union FNV and politics is Saturday criticized a ‘deal’ PostNL closed for years with the tax authorities to allow delivery drivers fiscal profitable work. The deliverers were seen as self-employed, so they were not employed at the postal service. PostNL saved this year an estimated EUR 15 million in taxes and contributions for employees, the Times reported Saturday.
The FNV believes that the Tax no political deals more should close allowing businesses with bogus work. ,, This government has taken issue with pretense. This is a shocking example of faulty structures which employers evade the normal payments, “said director Reinier Stroo FNV Transport and Logistics
Stroo:. ,, This agreement PostNL had for years with the tax authorities and led to the current situation with PostNL. It employs thousands of package deliverers who only nominally independent, but otherwise have all the characteristics of an employee, without the rights that employees have. ”
Clarification
Labour MP John Kerstens the scheme can not and want Secretary of State Eric Wiebes is illuminating. ,, These are not self-employed, but employees who earn employment, “said Kerstens at the Radio 1 News. He is not concerned that the government facilitates such an arrangement.
Also find GL ,, indignant that the Tax cooperates with the apparent self-making workers ”. This is reminiscent make the arrangements foreign companies to evade tax, said Member of Parliament Linda Voortman. The party wants the agreements between the Tax and PostNL be public .
According to the company fell all the agreements it has concluded with the tax authorities within the framework of the law. ,, It was not a ‘deal’, but to a regular appointment with the Tax Office with a maturity four years. This agreement covered the period 2009 to 2013 and is now no longer an issue, ” said a spokesman.
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