Wiebe: nothing illegal about – Telegraaf.nl

AMSTERDAM –

There is nothing illegal about the agreements PostNL in the past, with the tax authorities on how to deal with package deliverers. Secretary of State Eric Wiebes of Finance made clear Saturday after news that a “deal” that the tax authorities had for years with PostNL

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According Wiebes the Tax does not make deals, but they carry out the law. “What the tax authorities can do is certainty in advance about how the law interprets and where one has to follow.” PostNL has such appointment now no more, but it was in the past “completely boarded up,” and according to law, Wiebe said.

He points out that many companies and individuals advance to the tax authorities to ask security about interpretations of the tax laws. “This prevents corrections afterwards. But nobody gets anything. The law applies to everyone. “

From the trade union FNV and the politics came Saturday criticized the ‘deal’ PostNL between 2009 and 2013 had 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 thus saved an estimated EUR 15 million in taxes and contributions for employees, reported the newspaper.

The FNV believes that the Tax no political deals should close allowing more companies 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.

Labour MP John Kerstens can not find the scheme. “These are not self-employed, but employees earning employment.” Also find GroenLinks’ indignant that the tax authorities to cooperate in making the false independent workers. “

According PostNL fell all agreements within the framework of the law. It was not a ‘deal’, but to a regular appointment with the Tax Office which ran between 2009 and 2013.

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