Government parties MR and Vooruit continue to fundamentally disagree about the tax deductibility of second, third and fourth homes. That turned out in the seventh day on a. Forward chairman Conner Rousseau announced that he would continue to fight against the measure. ‘But how else are people supposed to put something aside for their retirement?’, responded his MR colleague Georges-Louis Bouchez.
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The tax advantage remained in the federal budget agreement, although the advantage for the first home has long since been abolished at Flemish level. That creates an anomaly. ‘Flanders has adjusted the fiscal regime’, MR chairman Georges-Louis Bouchez argued on Sunday. ‘So that is a very Flemish lecture. Mechanisms for the first home still exist in Wallonia and Brussels.’
‘Small advantage’
Bouchez denied that it is an advantage that benefits the rich. According to him, for example, many small self-employed have a second home. ‘If you earn up to 5,000 euros a month and have a family, you are not rich. It is a small advantage that ensures that you can set something aside for your pension’, according to the MR chairman. ‘But if you want to put something aside, where do you put it? The interest on savings accounts is no longer interesting and the stock market is dangerous.’
Conner Rousseau (Vooruit) strongly disagrees. “If you have to negotiate for a long time to find a government and you want to tackle the corona crisis, the climate crisis and other things together, you sometimes have to include figures and parties who have certain special requirements,” he said. ‘We have to help people to buy their first home, but if you can buy a second, third, fourth home, should the government still help? While so many singles and families cannot get by and cannot buy their own home. We don’t think that’s fair and we will continue to fight to get it out.’
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