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Michel Maus stated that the road vignette was indeed a new tax, despite the message that, according to him, was on a N-VA debate note and which Minister Annick De Ridder had repeated. He wrote that the combination of the vignette and the reformed traffic tax would increase car taxation for many Flemish people. According to Maus, electric vehicles before 2026, for which no traffic tax is currently paid, would receive an additional charge with the road vignette. He also pointed out that the reformed traffic tax would take the weight of vehicles into account. Electric cars weigh on average 300 to 500 kilograms more than their fossil counterparts, meaning that the higher tax would not only affect Bentley and Cadillac drivers, as De Ridder had claimed according to Maus. Maus wrote that generating more revenue from car taxation was a political choice and called for that choice to be recognized. He argued that it was not credible to continue insisting that the measure had no tax consequences for the Flemish. In conclusion, he used a coarse insult to emphasize that people were not stupid even in the parking lot. https://t.co/J7ihP4SZj4 #Wegenvignet #Belastingen #Autofiscaliteit (translated)

Bart Nijman wrote that the stuck plastic cap, in his view, symbolized the emptiness of European innovation. He stated that large technology companies and innovations in transport, logistics, and energy were mostly located in the United States and China. Nijman criticized the EU bureaucracy in Brussels and wrote that, in his opinion, it imposed new rules on workers and entrepreneurs while European companies weakened due to a lack of innovation and high energy prices. He mentioned companies in the steel and defense sector and German, French, and Italian car manufacturers. In contrast to Europe, he highlighted a man in the United States who, according to him, made cars drive with rocket boosters and thereby set an acceleration record of 0 to 100 in less than a second. Nijman concluded with the question of whether Europe would emerge from its own malaise and referenced images from several French cities that day. #innovatie #EU #technologie (translated)

Sander van Dam wrote that the Dutch national budget amounted to over €500,000,000,000, or €50,000 per working person in the population. He used derogatory language for people who, in his opinion, thought that too little tax was being collected. https://t.co/eyjal6Bgw7 #Nederland #belasting #economy (translated)

Sander van Dam stated that almost no country in the world had a higher tax burden than the Netherlands and that the problem, according to him, did not lie in too low taxation. He used insulting and derogatory language about his conversation partner. https://t.co/odpjvFhAhI #Belastingen #Nederland #Politiek (translated)

The debate over the announced layoffs at GSK, which could potentially affect up to 1217 employees, raises questions about the conditions of public support for large companies, with disagreements between Gilles Vanden Burre of Ecolo and Frédéric Druck of Essenscia regarding the use of tax incentives. #GSK #Emploi #AidesPubliques (translated)

Denkewel wrote that young Dutch people who had grown up in the Netherlands, according to him, had to travel daily to work far away by train while still living with their parents at the age of thirty. According to him, they paid taxes for new homes for wealthy newcomers and their families, who, according to him, received everything for free and with priority. He called the situation completely insane and stated that people who continued to defend the system while complaining about words that should not be said were lying and complicit in the deliberate destruction of the country. #Nederland #jeugd #wooncrisis (translated)

Maurits Vande Reyde wrote that, in his opinion, tax increases were too obvious in Belgium. He stated that academics, experts, and journalists often defended increases as difficult but inevitable and economically sensible, while political opponents were dismissed as enfant terrible. In Flanders, according to Vande Reyde, within less than two years, registration fees and costs for waste management had been increased, a road tax had been introduced, and various levies had risen, especially for entrepreneurs. The promised reduction of inheritance tax had also been scrapped. No party had announced these measures before the elections, he wrote. Vande Reyde added that, in the meantime, nothing was happening to reduce the state apparatus. According to him, cuts at the federal level were deemed impossible, while the removal of a small amount of Flemish subsidies was portrayed for weeks as an infringement of universal human rights. He also stated that the press regularly presented so-called spontaneous testimonials from people who almost always turned out to be PVDA activists, and that others viewed things differently. #Belastingverhogingen #Vlaanderen #Politiek (translated)

Theo Hiddema described the plan as simple and wrote that Dutch people who felt guilty about the slavery past could achieve spiritual redemption by making an unlimited, tax-free contribution to a support fund. He referred to the target group of the fund with a derogatory term. #slavernij #Nederland #steunfonds (translated)

New negotiations are underway in The Hague's politics for a possible agreement with right-wing parties, in which the leaders of JA21 and SGP, Joost Eerdmans and Henk Stoffer, introduce important wish list items such as asylum and abortion, while the coalition of D66, VVD, and CDA tries to find a majority for their budget and tax plans. #Erdmans #SGP #Asielbeleid (translated)

"From 2035, that [cut] is 438 million euros." Eerenberg acknowledged during the debate last week that it will be difficult to save half a billion euros per year on the service that is crucial for national revenues. #Bezuinigingen #Belastingdienst #KunstmatigeIntelligentie (translated)

The cabinet has announced that the Tax Authority must cut an additional 162 million euros, on top of previous savings, while the service is already facing staff shortages that prevent billions in tax revenues from being collected. #Bezuinigingen #Belastingdienst #KunstmatigeIntelligentie (translated)

Roman Abramovich, once the owner of Chelsea FC, is now associated with tax evasion and secrecy surrounding his enormous wealth, which he began to build up after his youth in the Soviet Union, but his ties to the Kremlin and criminal allegations make him a controversial figure. #RomanAbramovitsj #Oligarchen #Voetbal (translated)

European taxes are increasingly seen as less of a taboo, but they are not considered the solution for the billions needed, while the new levies play an important role in the discussions about the EU budget and member states are concerned about the consequences of structural tax increases. #EuropeseBelastingen #EUbegroting #Brussel (translated)

The author wrote that savings were necessary, but there was a lot of annoyance about extra taxes. He said he understood that annoyance due to distrust over the spending of tax money. He also stated that there was massive fraud, but the post broke off in the middle of that sentence. #belasting #fraude #besparen #NL (translated)