Kirsti Bergstø will fight against the oil tax package as the new SV leader. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB
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12. feb. 2023 23:01 – Updated 12 Feb. 2023 23:02
Kirsti Bergstø, who is set to be the new SV leader, says that the oil tax package is one of the first things she will take up the fight against if she is elected.
– It is time to remove the oil tax package. Everything else is throwing the community’s funds straight into the pockets of oil directors around the world, says Kirsti Bergstø The daily newspaper.
This month, she was unanimously nominated by the election committee to take over as party leader in SV when Audun Lysbakken’s replacement is to be elected at the national meeting in March.
Bergstø is strongly critical of the temporary support package for the oil industry that the Storting adopted in June 2020 to ensure activity in the corona era. SV was one of three parties that voted against the package.
– The oil tax package came into place in a completely different reality, in the middle of the pandemic. Now the oil industry is going crazy – it’s completely wrong for the community to subsidize that party, says Bergstø, referring, among other things, to Equinor’s record result last year.
In January wrote Technical Weekly that 30 oil and gas developments totaling around NOK 400 billion will receive the favorable tax conditions from the oil tax package. According to calculations from last year, the companies can get at least NOK 26 billion in tax relief as a result of the oil tax package.
