Lawsuit for savings tax: “Box 3 is theft” | Money

“We call on all three million taxpayers who pay capital gains tax to participate,” says BvB chairman Jurgen de Vries. Savings interest rates are already zero or even negative for many banks.

Box 3

The union is concerned with the capital gains tax, so the tax on savings and investments in box 3. The Supreme Court already concluded in 2019 that paying more tax than you receive interest equates to theft.

Savers were taxed much more than they achieved in return between 2013 and 2016.

Efficiency

You pay a third of your return to the tax authorities. Until 2017, the government assumed that the return was 4%, which was much more than people actually received.

Still, they continued to pay taxes on those that never achieved a 4% return. De Vries: “In some cases it is about 3-400 percent more tax that you pay than that you receive return.”

Taxation was adjusted in 2017, but that was not enough. The fictitious return has been scaled down less than necessary to meet reality. The union is in court over the years 2017, 2018, and 2019.

2022

“There was an intention to come up with a new bill, but that was canceled,” says De Vries. “Now we don’t know. We want tax on assets that only tax actual returns. As long as that does not happen, we can do nothing but argue for it. Then we are forced to litigate. I don’t do that for pleasure. ”

There are already tens of thousands of taxpayers who have objected to the final declaration by 2020, the Association of Taxpayers says. “If they object, their rights have been established. They then hitchhike our procedure free of charge. If you don’t object, you can’t claim a positive outcome. ”

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