Both Anette Trettebergstuen (Labor Party) and Kjell Ingolf Ropstad (KrF) received a free parliamentary apartment. Only one of them had to tax the benefit it gave them. The Storting says it is because the two politicians gave them “completely different information”.
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Anette Trettebergstuen (Labor Party) has had a commuter home since she entered the Storting in 2005. She has commuted from her apartment in Hamar.
Just before the corona arrived, she sold this apartment and temporarily registered with her mother. The plan was to buy a new home that was better suited to the family’s needs, but the pandemic meant that the home purchase was postponed.
In an email, Trettebergstuen informed the Storting that she would be temporarily registered with her mother. She also wrote that she assumed she had to tax this benefit.
This was confirmed by the Storting. They thought the benefit was 130,000 kroner.
Trettebergstuen still pays tax on the benefit of the commuter home she has in Oslo, at the same time as she is registered in the girls’ room in Hamar. She did not pay benefits tax when she had her own apartment.
This week, Aftenposten revealed that KrF leader Kjell Ingolf Ropstad got free housing at the Storting’s expense for ten years because he was registered in the boys’ room in Sørlandet.
Ropstad did not pay tax on the benefit of his commuter home, even though he was also registered at home with his parents. Why are the two politicians treated differently?
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