“The whole of political The Hague looks up to reality with blinkers”, was the verdict of VNO-NCW chairman Ingrid Thijssen on Tuesday morning in Sven on 1. Now that it seems that the cabinet will increase the burden on the business community to deal with financial setbacks from To accommodate the spring budget, The Hague does not have to count on applause from the employers.
“I’m not often angry, but now I’m really grumpy”, Thijssen sighs to Sven Kockelmann. “Due to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, we are in an incredibly uncertain time.” According to Thijssen, the bill is too often placed with the business community in bad times. “We are used as a kind of ATM”, says the employer foreman. “Last year we also had to deal with a structural tax increase of 3 billion euros. That is unwise, because teachers and agents are paid from the money that the business community earns.”
Financial setback cabinet
A significant part of the financial setbacks facing the cabinet is the so-called ‘savings tax’ – an illegitimate tax on investments and savings that has been levied in recent years.
Victims should be compensated for this, but Thijssen believes that this “one-off setback” does not need to be compensated in the budget. “You can also let such an amount go into the balance. That is not a problem at all, because our national debt is 52 percent. The government should not make this too complicated.”
Thijssen is gloomy about the economic prospects in the country. “Entrepreneurial inflation is already at 20 percent. If entrepreneurs succeed in letting that increase flow through in the price, general inflation could reach eight percent for the whole of 2022.”
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