Civil servants warned State Secretary Wiebes as early as 2005: ‘The savings tax law is legally fragile’ | Inland

Former State Secretary Eric Wiebes introduced even more assumptions into the system.

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The Hague – Officials warned then State Secretary Eric Wiebes (Finance) in 2015 about the risk that the judge would intervene in the savings tax. The Ministry of Finance hoped to circumvent these problems with a kind of word game, but at the end of last year the Supreme Court finally had a hard time.