‘As an ordinary tax specialist, I don’t immediately have the egg of Columbus,’ says Jan van de Streek, professor of Tax Law at the University of Leiden, modestly beforehand. “It’s very complicated.” The government wants to compensate for the unprecedented fall in purchasing power, but how can this be done effectively and somewhat affordably? “All the buttons that a cabinet normally turns on the budget, that’s all rumbling in the margins,” says the Leiden professor. “This is a much larger redistribution operation and therefore much more political.”
How can you fix purchasing power? four options from experts for the cabinet
