2023-06-16 05:53:20
This weekend, Alexander De Croo convened a special council of ministers to work on the tax reform file.
On the menu, in particular, a project to modify VAT rates to finance a reform of labor taxation. Apart from fruit and vegetables which would go to 0% VAT, other foodstuffs would go from 6 to 9%. “It is not possible to have a tax reform where on the one hand we will perhaps reduce the tax burden and on the other hand we will pay for it in shopping carts through consumption taxes“, denounces Sofie Merckx.
MP PTB says, on behalf of her party, to wait for tax reform to “put an end to the fact that Belgium is a tax hell for workers, taxed quickly and, for the really rich, really a tax haven“.
“What it takes is really looking at the broadest shoulders. We talk about large estates, we talk about our millionaire tax, for example“, advances Sofie Merckx. “Today, there are 37 billionaires in this country and these people do not pay taxes on their wealth.“, she denounces.
On the side of the PS and Ecolo, we also propose taxation that would target large estates. “It’s true, the PS asks to tax the rich“, recognizes Sofie Merckx. “But when did they make a government issue of that? I’m talking here about making it a question to get into government or making it a real discussion in government“, asks Sofie Merckx.
A few hours from the kern devoted to tax reform, MP PTB wonders. “Will this Saturday at the kern, Mr. Dermagne or Mrs. Lalieux tell Mr. De Croo, listen, we are going to tax the rich, otherwise it’s enough?“.
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