Klaver wants cabinet tax plan talks during autumn recess
PRO leader Jesse Klaver calls an €8bn rise in the tax burden on ordinary people unacceptable and wants "serious negotiations" with the Jetten cabinet on the tax plan this week.
Jesse Klaver, leader of PRO, wants "serious negotiations" with the Jetten cabinet this week, during the autumn recess of the Tweede Kamer, on support for the budgets and the Belastingplan (tax plan). He spoke on Sunday afternoon at a party meeting in Amsterdam.
The Belastingplan is due for a plenary debate in the Tweede Kamer in early November. Klaver said scrapping or changing the planned rise in tax on labour is a firm condition for support from PRO and from Volt. "A tax increase of €8bn for ordinary people is unacceptable to us," he said.
The cabinet is sleepwalking into a crisis if it takes no action now.Jesse Klaver, PRO leader
Klaver said PRO can back the plan if "the cabinet is willing to ease the burden on labour by asking a fair contribution from the very richest". He called the cabinet's capital gains tax plan and a box 2 tax cut "reverse Robin Hood politics".
Vice-premier Dilan Yesilgöz (VVD) said on Friday, after the council of ministers, that the cabinet is still aiming for "a broadly supported agreement" with backing from left and right, "so that you know it also holds in the longer term".
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PRO is a Dutch political party led by Jesse Klaver, and in the article it is in opposition in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament. As a parliamentary party, it takes positions on government budgets and tax legislation, and it can seek agreement with the cabinet on key bills.
Belastingplan
The Belastingplan is the annual tax bill in which the Dutch government sets out changes to taxes, levies and tax allowances for the coming year. It is presented to the Tweede Kamer together with the national budget on Prinsjesdag in September, and it must be approved by both chambers of parliament before it takes effect on 1 January.