Just Before the Summer Recess, Hans Vijlbrief (D66) Puts the Higher Wealth Tax, Which Is Highly Undesirable for the VVD, Back on the Table.
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No, he hadn't coordinated it with his coalition partners, and yes, as Minister of Social Affairs and a D66 member, he felt he was entitled to mention it. On the last day before the summer recess, Minister of Social Affairs Vijlbrief suddenly floated the idea of a wealth tax: "It is not taboo to discuss an increase in that tax," he says in the Financieele Dagblad. Now that the Social Security reforms are not being implemented through a faster inc…
A stone in the pond: for the first time, a D66 minister openly takes on the budgetary discipline and austerity drive of the...
If the cabinet fails to finalize the planned billions in cuts to social security, the option of raising the wealth tax is on the table, according to D66 Minister Hans Vijlbrief. The Minister of Social Affairs believes this should not be a taboo, he says in an interview with Het Financieele Dagblad (FD). Vijlbrief himself is not keen on cutting other plans, such as free childcare.
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