2023-04-22 13:48:12
The Brussels Minister of Finance Sven Gatz (Open Vld), would like to implement the Smartmove kilometer tax project in Brussels from the next legislature if his party joins a regional majority, he suggests in the columns of the Last Hour and of The Future, Saturday. For the president of the Brussels PS Ahmed Laaouej, it is “non“.
The option of a smart kilometer tax in Brussels had been sharply rejected by Wallonia and Flanders. However, it would bring in between 200 and 250 million euros per year in Brussels. Not insignificant amounts as the regional debt grows – it has increased by 122% since 2018, according to the latest report from the National Accounts Institute (ICN).
In the DH and L’Avenir, Sven Gatz underlines that the Brussels Region will have to find 500 million euros just for 2024. The next government will also have to tighten its belt.
According to the minister,there may be a window of opportunity during the first six months of the (next) legislature” to implement Smartmove. He says he is ready to negotiate with the PS to imagine mechanisms for “social compensation” for the less privileged people of Brussels.
“We are very clear: it’s no“, reacts via Belga the president of the Brussels PS Ahmed Laaouej. “We salute the work of Sven Gatz, who spares no effort. However, we cannot accept that new taxes increase the bills of households faced with increasingly greater difficulties, in particular with the increase in the price of food products and energy bills.“
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