With that call, a majority of the House of Representatives comes on Thursday, after a spiky debate about what trade union FNV has baptized the ‘buffalo fine’. This is a combination of tax measures that the cabinet took last year on Prinsjesdag and, according to FNV and a majority in the Chamber, mainly part -timers with an income of up to 25,000 euros.
Many part -timers affected by a setback of hundreds of euros: low incomes struggle with ‘buffalo fine’
GL/PvdA and NSC, which was still in the cabinet when the measures were taken, came up with a proposal on Wednesday to vote this week about a change in the law to brush away the ‘buffalo fine’. They wanted to process that in the law that stipulates that the VAT increase on sports, culture and media is being reversed.
That route caused a lot of irritation at other parties in the Chamber. CU MP Grinwis blamed the GL/PvdA MP Klaver for taking the VAT law to score points before the elections. According to the CU’er there was one ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement“To leave that law unspoilt. The treatment was brought forward to give entrepreneurs security. Other tax laws are only treated after the elections.
‘Not so neat’
“I don’t like it,” said Grinwis, who even feared that turning back the VAT increase by the maneuver would be completely at stake. The PVV is no longer for this and the CU MP feared that other right-wing parties would also turn against the law through the procedure of GL/PvdA and NSC: “Mr. Klaver knows Drommelsen well what he is doing and knows Drommels well that he is playing with fire.” Klaver said ‘just wanting to give certainty to people’ and ‘to cash the moment’ just before the elections.
NSC person gets wind from the front
NSC MP Kouwenhoven, in turn, got the wind from the front because, according to other parties, he tells ‘half the truth’ and his party himself was the buttons when the ‘buffalo fine’ was introduced. BBB MP Vermeer blamed him ‘stupid things to do at the very last moment’, because it ‘works out well in the campaign’.
In the end, a compromise came. The Chamber supports a motion by GL/PvdA and NSC that asks the cabinet to adjust the Tax Plan. The part -timers must be spared with a higher employed person’s tax credit. The corresponding bill of several hundred millions is spread broadly by tinkering with the disk limits of the income tax and the rate in the first disk.