The richest 1% in the Netherlands pay relatively less tax than everyone else and their incomes have risen more sharply, according to new calculations by the government’s macro-economic forecasting agency CPB. Earlier research, based on figures from 2016, showed that people on the highest incomes pa...
Looks like they play the same game there as they do in the US. Get most of their income from investment vs actual salary, and of course the investment is taxed less than regular income.
Yeah, not like the working classes aren't starved of actual cost of living wages and have to scale back everything in the 'age of subscription fees'. This also isn't limited to NL.🥲
It's almost as if rich people are the common denominator in this equation. Substitute this person into a new context and they find a way to exploit the game in that arena.
The answer lies in the hands of the people who make stuff. When we say we are not going to play this game any more rich people are forced to the negotiation table because they have no chance to make any of the stuff, their stock and trade is lies.
Yeah and those 28% they “pay” they probably get back from the irs with some creative number swapping… fuck off they dont pay shit. Meanwhile i have to pay for my electricity twice, one to use it and second time because i also produce it because i have solar panels and dont use it al straight away. fuck off please.
Misleading title. Not incorrect, but it is based on what the source of income is, it is not about how rich you are relative to the rest of the population. The title makes it sound like if you make a certain amount of money, your tax rate is lowered. Alternatively, it sounds like the richest Dutch are evading 12% worth of taxes.
But neither of these are true statements AFAIK, and either way they aren't made in the article, so the title is misleading.
Edit: Changed "the top 1%" to "the richest Dutch".
Everyone's saying rich aren't paying their fair share. No one is saying the Dutch are getting taken to the cleaners with taxes. Why not simply lower the tax rate of all non rich people to, like, 0.