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september 30, 2021

bring the Dutch housing market back into balance

It will be clear to everyone that something is wrong in the housing market, but finding the key and then using it turns out to be difficult. Over the years, this market has been government-regulated on the part of buyers and social tenants, but deregulated on the side of investors and free market tenants. It is precisely this that ensures that more and more homes come into the hands of those investors and that more and more buyers are spending more money on their rent than a mortgage would have cost them. And this is not so much the fault of that investor, but of the system that the government has created. The government wants to protect buyers against an irresponsibly high mortgage, but not against an irresponsibly high rent. This gives investors the opportunity to bid higher, because they can easily make a higher offer without having comparable restrictions on obtaining a mortgage. This with more than the variable costs such as rent, plus the proceeds of the increased house prices in prospect. This is recalculated to an average net return of 18.6% per year.

The structure of the housing market has therefore ensured that the available repayment of the first-time buyers is used for extra interest income for the bank, extra return for investors and extra transfer tax. The tenants concerned see nothing of it. As starters, the same tenants are not allowed to make an extreme offer on the same house, because then we have to protect them against themselves. Despite the fact that after 40 years that gives a relieved house. Tenants with the same costs have nothing after 40 years. On the contrary, tenants are confronted with rising house prices and rents, which potentially increases their problem of buying or renting a house. All in all, a protection that turns out badly for those who don’t know how to own a house.

Making rules for investors to obtain a loan for the purchase of a rental property solves more. By including rental income for a maximum of 50% and taking out a maximum of 50% for a mortgage, these investors suddenly have to take with them twice as much for the purchase. So they can effectively only buy half the number of homes. The average net return then falls back to 8.2%. These measures will bring the regulation of the housing market into balance. Not only are buyers limited in what they can borrow to purchase their own home, but so are investors. After all, both can drive up prices if they are allowed to borrow indefinitely. Limiting one of the two ensures that the other can only drive up the price and thus effectively buy everything. The investors are in themselves already the stronger party because they can base their income on income generated by their tenants and therefore not generated by themselves. It is therefore only logical to limit the investors more than the starters.

So balance the housing market by regulating buyer and investor in an equal way!
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basic income tax percentage 2

General / Taxes

december 9, 2020

The basic income can be initiated affordably

€ 1,500 net per month unconditional for everyone. This is how high a basic income should be in the Netherlands. With this, for example, a two-person household can manage on their joint basic income of € 3,000 per month. This with minimal expenses and a rent of € 1,000 per month in the free sector. The way to cover this has now been found and involves closing loopholes and disallowing certain tax benefits from companies. This means that the tax that is levied on all other income, without further deductions such as mortgage interest deduction and labor discounts, can be set at 55%. That 55% is a percentage that can then always be used, without having to go down for low amounts and up for high amounts. With a tax-free basic income for everyone. 55% is a percentage with which it still pays to work more and to do more business. After all, it is only slightly higher than the current highest income tax rate. So of everything you earn on top of the basic income, 45% is unconditionally yours.
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waarschuwing euro 0

General / Taxes

december 8, 2020

Apply the capital gains tax fairly on the yield obtained

The inequality between wealthy and employees is growing. Thomas Piketty provides in his two books an extensive analysis of how the difference between rich and poor is getting bigger and what the disadvantages are. This is not only due to the difference in assets and the differences in deductions for companies, but also due to the ability to grow assets almost untaxed. It shouldn’t really matter why you get richer, you should always pay tax on the benefit you get when it gets more. If we don’t, we should also be questioning income tax. That is why the capital gains tax should also be improved. Not based on a fictitious return but on an actual return. And not only the return through interest or profit distribution, but also the return through increased value of things that have been sold.
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euro naar deur 2

General / Taxes

december 8, 2020

Always tax actual profits in the consuming country

The international tax principle should be that the profit is made in the country where the revenue is generated or where the added value is provided. Where the revenues have been generated can be determined by payment by the consumer, or by payment of the marketing addressed to a consumer. The consumer can also be a company. Whether the profit ends up in the producing or the consuming country is in principle up to the free market. That works until a supplier is a dominant player in the world market and can therefore shift profits between subsidiaries. For those situations, the money must be taxed at source, so on the consumer’s side. After all, most prices are based more on what the fool gives than what it costs to make it.

In order to close any loopholes, there must be a solid way to prevent profits from being shifted through normal costs. The so-called “transfer pricing” is the main way this is done. This means that goods are delivered on paper at cost price to a sister company in another country and are then compulsorily bought back at market value. In the country that both put the effort into production and paid for the actual sales by consumers, the proceeds of the profit are not shared. This is so obviously taking advantage of loopholes that a simple ban should suffice.
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euro naar mannetje 2

General / Taxes

december 8, 2020

Turn royalties and interest into taxable profit

For years, the Netherlands has explicitly or implicitly had a policy that companies should be welcome in the Netherlands because this creates employment. The result is that many companies use Dutch tax law to pay little or no tax in constructions with other countries tax laws here and in those other countries. These constructions mean that companies that make a profit in the Netherlands can also transfer this profit abroad and pay little or no tax here. You can solve a large part of this problem immediately by labeling interest and royalties as a profit distribution. Interest and royalties are often set by companies so high that they are high enough not to make a profit in the country where they sell their goods or services. This means that a large part of the royalties and interest is in fact a dividend payment. So it would be more equal if all dividends, royalties and interest were always seen as profit distribution.
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General / Taxes

december 8, 2020

Make companies pay taxes before reinvesting

There is a difference in what you can deduct as a company compared to an employee to ensure that you do not have to pay tax. After all, companies can do something very strange that would never be allowed by employees. They can postpone paying the tax for the future by not paying out the profits they have received, but reinvesting them. The system is therefore designed in such a way that the money must remain in a company for as long as possible and there must never be any profit or profit distribution. After all, the latter two are associated with paying taxes – and thus with contributing fairly to society. Have them deduct only the purchase costs, labor costs, and depreciation of investment costs that contributed directly to the relevant revenues. Using this definition, companies have made a lot more profit in the past year and have to pay a lot more corporate tax than they do now. That’s because I deliberately don’t mention two deductions: failed investments from the past and upfront deductions for future business. The abolition of these two corporate deductions will close an important loophole in the tax law and ensure a level playing field between start-ups and growing companies.
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General

september 28, 2020

Split the supply of energy from the provision of charging stations

Electric cars are better for the environment, even if the car is charged with gray electricity. For the climate, we should therefore want all new cars to be electric in the long term. Then we just have to make sure that everyone can also charge the car. Let the customer ask his energy supplier from home for a fuel card with his home rates. He can then charge his car at the nearest charging station and therefore simply park near his home or work and charge it at a normal price. The provider of the charging stations must receive a fair reimbursement for the service via a fixed maximum surcharge per kWh and thus earn back the investment in the long term. The normal user benefits most from a charging station at every parking space. And the chance of this is greatest if we leave it to the municipalities to set that standard. In short, apply the private energy market to public charging station facilities and make electric driving attractive for everyone!
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General / Taxes

september 28, 2020

Simplify social services with a universal basic income

At the moment we have a social system where you are protected at the bottom by a social assistance benefit. Wouldn’t it be better if there was an unconditional basic income for everyone so everyone can really make ends meet. For example EUR 1,500 net per month unconditionally for everyone over the age of 18. It’s possible!
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