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COA record eight thousand incidents in asylum centers – NU.nl

The COA registered more than 1,300 reports of physical attacks on and around locations where asylum seekers are received. These are for example to kicking and beating, as the Ministry of Security and Justice announced Saturday.

Also counted 369 “self-destructive actions.” It involves, for example hunger strikes or self-mutilation.

Secretary of State Klaas Dijkhoff (Security and Justice) sends the figures to parliament Saturday. He announced to be cautious in drawing conclusions. “I want to be transparent in his, everybody can see them. Comparisons with other places or groups, I will not do. That necessarily go wrong.”

Loze notifications

Police also kept track of how many incidents occurred at shelter facilities and amounted to about 4460 messages. Ranging from human trafficking to lost ID papers and false alarms.

It

was only in 337 cases of aggression, there were considerably less than the COA. That’s according to the Ministry by COA staff many conflicts yourself.

Morals Affairs

The police also recorded 55 sexual abuse cases. They would mostly play between residents of reception centers.

“A single registration is about attempted abuse of a minor refugee by a Dutch man and an attempted sexual assault of a Dutch woman by a man who may have come from COA reception center in that location “

By:. ANP

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Additional levy high income remains intact – Financieele Dagblad

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands is the highest court in the Netherlands in the field of civil, criminal and tax right in The Hague. (Photo: HH)

The crisis levy the tax authorities in 2013 and 2014 is levied on wage income above € 150,000, is preserved. The government has violated no rules when it decided retroactively imposing an additional tax of 16% on the earnings above half tonnes, the Supreme Court ruled

The decision of the Higher Council published this Friday and differs from the opinion of the Advocate General. The advisor of the Council considered the charge partially illegal. If the Supreme Court had followed the Opinion of the Advocate General, would the government tens if not hundreds of millions of euros have been able to charge.

Test Case

The Supreme Court has ruled in two lawsuits against the crisis levy, one of 2013 and the other, a test case over 2014. Employers who paid the crisis levy, started a large number of legal proceedings against the temporary levy was imposed in both years on income over € 150,000 in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

Unlike the Advocate General, the Supreme Court let the budget problems of the government outweigh legitimate expectations of employers with regard to the pay payroll taxes. The urgency to reduce the public deficit was so big that these expectations could be affected, the court ruled.

The latter occurred twice. On May 25, 2012, when the crisis tax was announced as part of the Spring Agreement, which was concluded after the fall of the first Rutte, and on Budget Day 2013, when the second Rutte temporary duty extended for a year. The Advocate General stated earlier that as far as income before those dates in above-half tonnes, about this part no crisis levy should be imposed.

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The surprise Peter Kavelaars and he feels it is wrong that the Supreme Court public interest so heavily weigh late that the charge was authorized retroactively. Kavelaars is professor of economics and taxation linked to consultancy Deloitte. In the latter capacity he is involved in the proceedings against the levy in 2013. The surprise was all the greater because the proceeds of the crisis levy is relatively modest, especially in light of the now reasonably restored public finances.

The final appellate body is the European Court of Human Rights. Tax consultant Arjo van Eijsden EY eight real chance that he on behalf of one or more of the clients whom he assists in five test cases, switching to this Court and the Supreme Court comes to the same conclusion in their affairs. The latter is evident

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Volgens Van Eijsden clear from previous judgments of the ECHR that taxation is permitted retroactively, but not if it is done solely for budgetary reasons. That was when the crisis levy were the case, says the consultant.

The retroactivity and the extension of the “one-off” levy moreover so unpalatable for the more than one hundred employers who have presented themselves at EY, they will want to fight this to the highest authority of Eijsden think.

Kavelaars expects most held proceedings against the crisis levy will be withdrawn. The Supreme Court leaves one possibility open to appeal, namely when the charge has led to an individual and excessive burden. That appeal was rejected visit earlier in the test case by the Court, the Court ruled. In the other case appeal this objection was not raised.

Supreme Court approves tax crisis well – Telegraaf.nl

THE HAGUE –

The additional crisis tax by the government in 2013 and 2014 raised incomes above one and a half tons, is not contrary to the law or international conventions in the field of human and civil rights. That the Supreme Court ruled Friday

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In order to reduce the budget deficit left it big earners cabinet then pay 16 percent extra tax the portion of their annual income exceeded the 150 000 euro. Several employer got it to court. It had the government hundreds of millions can cost as they were vindicated.

Righteous

Both the court and the court ruled that the government of the crisis levy booklet was not indulging . Then an appeal request was filed with the Supreme Court. That has, however, rejected it.

The Advocate General had just advised to refer the case back to the court. In his view the crisis levy was not lawful because it was applied retroactively. That would have been in violation of international copyright.

However, the Supreme Court ruled otherwise. Given the time of serious budget problems were, according to the court “sufficiently specific and compelling reasons exist” to justify the crisis levy

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John de Mol locking million deal in China – NU.nl

“We are an important player in a market with more than 1.3 billion inhabitants,” said De Mol in The Telegraph .

Zhejiang Tangde pay $ 60 million ( 55 million euros) for The Voice and also puts another $ 50 million (45 million euros) in the joint venture that will develop the Talpa Formats for the local market.

” China will soon be our largest customer, after America that gives a huge thrill. “ The Voice there have been four successful seasons in China are in. According to De Mol look 300 to 500 million Chinese people to the shows. Also, The Voice Kids can already be seen in China.

Formats

The

media mogul is also currently in talks about other formats.

” You can think of Dance Dance Dance , The big picture or I do not know. I love Holland – we sell abroad under the title I love my country – already has a Chinese version, with panda bears instead of cows ”

By: NU.nl/BuzzE

Labor market recovery continues in 2016 – NU.nl

As in 2015, growth is mainly driven by the temporary sector, the UWV, in his Friday published predictions. The number of jobs has increased in construction and childcare. The number of jobs in nursing is expected to decrease this year.

Includes jobs of self employment growth picks up even higher. If those jobs are counted, there will be 129 000 jobs were created.

The improving economy also ensures that there are more vacancies arise. That this year probably there 859.000. That is 49 000 more than last year and about one-third more than the low point in 2013.

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Benefits

Thanks to the recovery of the labor market, the UWV is also much less spent on unemployment benefits. Last year, total expenses decreased of benefits providing the body with half a billion euros to 20.9 billion

euros. The expectation is that the burden decrease this year with another quarter billion.

This is good news for the ability of the UWV. Which fell last year, but this year for the first time in years that increase. At the beginning of the crisis, the agency had a power surplus of 12 billion euros. Now, there is a deficit of around 10 billion.

In a previous forecast in June, said he expected the UWV recovery, but not everyone benefits. As vanish in the financial services, health care, industry and government in the coming years is expected to have thousands of jobs

By:. NU.nl/ANP

Businesses are increasingly on social media – NU.nl

The use of Twitter has increased in the same period from 21 to 30 percent. Especially big companies allow online show their faces. The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reports that Friday.

Nearly nine out of ten media companies, travel agencies and ‘providers of accommodation (hotels, bed and breakfasts) are active on social media. When carriers is much less the case, as did 38 percent of companies own account.

Also, the employees are more active on social media professional. The 25- to 45-year olds are the most important group. Among them was 41 percent last year represented at such sites. In 2012 it was 21 percent.

These are people who are

busy with their careers. Among 20- to 25-year olds, people who start their careers, using social media 28 rose to 35 percent.

From the survey also found that messaging services like WhatsApp and Snap Chat now are more popular than Facebook and Twitter. These networks have seen lately are more older users, while young people just leave

By:. ANP

Low interest assassin for pension funds: great discounts in danger … – z24

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H & M sets record profit down – NU.nl

Net income for the financial year that ran until December 1, from 19.9 billion kronor to 20.9 billion kronor (2.3 billion euros), reports H & amp; M Thursday . The turnover amounted to 210 billion kronor, compared with 177 billion a year earlier.

The higher sales and profits were due largely to the opening of more than four hundred new stores and expansion of the activities online. H & amp; M now has more than 3,900 stores in 61 countries and

maintains an annual growth of the store base from 10 to 15 percent

In the Netherlands, there were four stores were added, but sales dropped in spite of one percent. back. The retailer had on December 1 139 branches in the Netherlands

By:. ANP

Pension Boss sees salary decrease by ten percent – Volkskrant

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Record profit for H & M – AD.nl

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Gerard van Olphen new boss APG – Financieele Dagblad

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Gerard van Olphen, former CEO of SNS Reaal, the new CEO of APG Group, the pension administrator of pension fund ABP . That was announced Thursday

Yearly

Van Olphen begins in March. Late last year, was State Secretary Jetta Klijnsma said that the new APG-boss must earn less than his predecessor Dick Sluimers. From Olphen earns € 500,000 per year, and there will be a pension contribution of € 66,000 at. The APG reports that it is 10% less than its predecessor.

For Van Olphen itself is less than he was used to, For SNS Reaal was the salary including pension € 676,000, according to the annual report for 2014.

APG praises his new CEO in the press release as “a highly skilled and experienced driver. His appointment will be for four years.

From Olphen will not be easy. The investor of pension fund ABP suffer from low interest rates, making the same ABP is facing a lack of funding. That causes it can not meet the long term to its pension obligations. In the pension world is raging for some time been a debate about whether the system should be fundamentally revised, with the promise is released on the level of pensions.

Low interest rates

APG did not hedge the interest rate risk in the past, so now it has suffered from low interest rates. Followers sector argue that in the past was always sought

the solution by asking politicians the discount rate – the interest rate that the coverage ratio is determined – to match. The investor of the ABP tapped a different tune, is also reflected in the profile of Van Olphen. Where Sluimers reputed to be an influential VVD Van Olphen Hague has no profile. He has spent his entire life working in the business world, including at SNS Bank and Achmea insurance cooperative in financial functions.

It was early in 2013 by the government parachuted to the then newly nationalized SNS Reaal. Under his leadership, the sick property arm is separate and put the rest of the company split into a bank and an insurer.

Those insurers, now operating under the name Vivat, last summer sold to the Chinese company Anbang. From Olphen intention was that the CEO would be Vivat, but China has sacked him after escalating conflicts over the degree of influence of the new shareholder and strategic direction of the insurer.

Smetje

From Olphen is Possible at his redundancy an anti-competition clause must sign and that’s why he can begin only in March at APG. Vivat-daughter Zwitserleven is indeed also in pensions. Furthermore, probably played a role which regulator DNB has conducted an investigation into the events surrounding his dismissal at Vivat. A blemish on his escutcheon is the fact that the sale of Anbang an accounting error from 700 million euros to emerged and the insurer was eventually sold for 1 euro to Anbang. That smetje prevented the selection of APG not to appoint him.

Shareholders BG support deal with Shell – NU.nl

Following the Shell shareholders on Wednesday, they voted en masse in the transaction. Of the existing share capital voted 87.32 percent for which a minimum requirement of 75 percent gold.

Nothing seems now the largest takeover of a Dutch company ever to stand in the way. Shell February 15 as the basis for completion. Chairman Ben van Beurden is obviously in his element with the voting results and announced that ” there to see as soon as possible to realize the benefits of the combination. ” Besides attractive deepwater and gas positions, the acquired as a catalyst for reforms at Shell, said the CEO.

Acquisition

Shell released in April last year a takeover bid for the equivalent of around 64 billion euros. That amount has dropped considerably since the majority of the

acquisition will be paid in shares Shell, who surrendered to pressure from falling oil prices to value. The current transaction is valued at approximately 47 billion euros.

With the purchase Shell can the cost of its oil production ” substantial ‘decrease, the reserves are replenished and given the group access to very good gas production activities in Australia, said shareholders advisor ISS. The agency advised many of Shell’s largest shareholders in recent weeks to go in on the deal

By:. ANP

Own 4G network Tele2 provides little additional customers – NU.nl

That left the Swedish telecommunications company announced Thursday at the presentation of the fourth-quarter and annual results. The provider blames the disappointing customer growth to fierce competition in the cheaper segment.

Tele2 got there in the last three months of 2015 net 3000 Dutch customers. A year earlier there are 22,000. Sales grew, but investment in the 4G network it had a severe impact on profitability.

The influx of new customers have increased, said spokesman Jan-Willem te Gussinklo Tele2. Research by GfK shows, according to the informant that “almost 30 percent” of the subscriptions with a supplied device is now being closed at Tele2.

However, it also got more Tele2 customers to another provider. That’s according to Gussinklo by competitor actions as Dutch New and Simple, offering cheap sim-only subscriptions. Tele2 focuses its 4G network mainly on subscriptions to a device. The provider does have sim-only subscriptions, but which have relatively small data bundles.

Profit

The Swedish

parent company posted over 2015 year net profit from continuing operations of 1.3 billion krona (approximately 140 million euros). That is half less than in 2014. Sales increased by 3 percent to 26.9 billion kronor. In the Netherlands, revenue growth, except for foreign exchange and also amounted to 3 percent.

Tele2 also announced that it has appointed a new director in the Netherlands. Malin Holmberg takes over on April 1 from Jeff Dodds, who is moving to the UK telecom provider TalkTalk.

The Swedish Tele2 has worked since 2009 and was previously employed by Vodafone. They also remain temporarily lead the Croatian Tele2′s operations, whilst there a successor is wanted

By:. ANP / NU.nl

Discounts threaten to large pension funds – Parool.nl

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Discounts threaten to large pension funds – Telegraaf.nl

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The big pension funds warn that reductions in pensions suspended in the air. In 2016, such an intervention is not necessary, but the financial position of the funds has become so uncertain that the largest Dutch pensioenuitkeerders, ABP and PFZW, hand for next year no longer dare stabbing in the fire.

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,, The chance that we have to curtail increases in 2017, ” said Corien Wortmann-Kool, president of the civil fund ABP. ,, We understand that older people are worried about the amount of their pensions and that young people are wondering how much pension will remain for them. ”

Care Fund PFZW has a similar message. The danger of cut lies in wait as the interest rate plunges and the investment yield this year is not enough returns to compensate for a few things.

The large metal funds PME and PMT, where also many Dutch are connected, are bleak. Indexation ,, the coming years and really did not expect a reduction of pensions is due to the lack of recovery closer, ” said PME director Eric Uijen. The president of PMT, Jan

Berghuis, the situation takes only difficult to explain to its members.

The problem is that obtaining the funds too little return on equity, while their liabilities by low interest rates significantly in value have increased. According to the rules they must therefore working on recovery plans to be for real financial need, although they still manage billion abilities.

How a fund is doing, is shown using the so-called policy coverage. Who failed to ABP in the fourth quarter of last year from 99.7 to 98.7 percent. PFZW deteriorated in the gauge of 99 to 97 percent. PME and PMT now sit on, respectively, 97.7 and 98.5 percent. Thus they are below the required level. From the great state funds only bpfBOUW still reasonable for with a score of 110.9 percent.

In the fourth quarter, the fund performed a little better than in the previous quarter, but not nearly enough to make the year. The sector has now established the hope for stronger recovery of the economy, which means extra yield for the funds. The last time a sizeable group of funds had to reduce pensions was two years ago

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Discounts in sight in pensions – Financieele Dagblad

A new round of controversial discounts on pensions is no longer excluded now the largest funds have become massively underfunded by falling interest rates and poor stock exchanges. The second largest pension fund in the Netherlands, Care and Welfare, said the participants will advance to prepare for bad news.

Ability in short, which was mention yesterday at the presentation of the annual results, is a major setback for the pension world. When introducing new rules two years ago was the idea that funds almost never would have shortened. Compared with the old rules, a pension fund nowadays are much deeper in the pit before the contested measure is applied, but now that threshold for many funds is not far off

Coverage

The big funds saw their funding plummet in the last year and are almost all below 100%. The largest fund, ABP, was the end of December at 97.2%. Health and Social Services had dropped to 95%. The metal PME fund gained 96.4% and the fund for the construction is as always sharply higher, up almost 109%.

A Fund should only be cut if the so-called critical coverage is breached. The percentage varies by fund; it is at most around 90%. Decisive is the balance at December 31st. That means that any reductions only start next year.

Realistic communicate

Due to the turmoil in global markets and lower interest rates, the coverage of many funds dropped even further than the already low year-end figures. A spokesman for PME says’ rebates in 2017 not to exclude. “

Retirement discounts should have been past through new rules

Low interest rates and poor stock markets bring critical limit in sight

Directeur Peter Borgdorff of Health and Social Services comes with the same message. “The difference between the 95% we went along the year and our critical coverage ratio of 87% is not great anymore. I hope we rebates do

not have to do with it, but I want to communicate realistic direction participants. I want to warn that it could be that reductions lurk. ” In January, the coverage continued to fall in his fund, but it has not yet fallen below 90%.

ready

To such communication has the largest fund in the Netherlands and one of the largest in the world, ABP, no need. A spokeswoman says the large fund ‘not ready’ what is currently the coverage is critical, nor the impact of the stock market slump in January, the figures

Indexation of benefits is already completely out of the picture for most funds. “I’ve said that over the next five years will be no indexation. We love now aware that it will take more than five years, and I have no end date ‘, says Borgdorff.

Previous year the pension burden of a few adjustments to the rules for calculating the coverage ratio. That, plus the developments in interest rates and stock markets, made the big funds saw their funding in one year by 4 to 7 percentage points. Most dramatically was Health and Welfare, which was hard hit by lower oil prices.

No Warranties

According Borgdorff the pensions on a different footing to be shod. He wrote in the presentation of the figures the vision director Gerard Belts Pension Federation last week, in this newspaper. Belts wants to get rid of the system where people deposit money and no pot of capital to get back there, but papers rights to a future payment.

This type of benefit guarantees does not work anymore, says the federation and also says Borgdorff. “There are no guarantees. Not in pensions, and actually not in life. With many uncertainties people can handle it, but when they want to guarantee pensions. But I do not believe in it. “

Who stormed emergency shelter refugees in Woerden? – Volkskrant

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Fed maintains interest – NU.nl

It was not like the last interest rate meeting in December with great tension in the financial markets awaited the decision. At the time, the key interest rate by a quarter percentage point went up.

Since December 2008, the policy rate stood at 0 to 0.25 percent. Those historically low was the result of a series of rate cuts during the financial crisis that began in the US in 2007.

From the minutes of the December meeting of central bankers later found out that the interest rate step a ” close call ” was. Although the decision to increase interest rates was taken unanimously, some policymakers have turned to worry. Market Experts spoke of a mostly symbolic step.

In September, decided to forgo the Fed from raising interest rates, which came as a surprise to the financial markets, because it was expected that the interest rate that month already jacked up would be .

Gradually

The central bank showed Wednesday managed to still count on the interest ”

gradually ” future operations. In addition, close attention be paid to the global economic situation and the state of affairs in the financial markets.

These developments and their implications on the US labor market and inflation, which are important measures of interest rate policy are closely in the scrutinized the Fed did know.

Balanced

It is notable that in relation to the declaration a comment from the Fed statement was taken at the previous interest rate decision. At the time, central bankers called the risks to the US economic outlook ” balanced ”.

Since then, turmoil in financial markets, a further decline in oil prices and increased concerns about the global economy changed that picture.

By: Reuters