The Dutch government is thinking of increasing the VAT from its current 19% to 20% at the end of this year (source). That may seem like a lot, but for instance in Denmark I believe it stands at 25% and Denmark is a pretty nice country.
I’m curious to the rationale of such an increase of 1%. Why increase it at all? In the current political climate it will only increase perception that Jan Modaal 1 is being screwed over by government. And why then not increase it directly to 25% or 50%, if it’s such a good thing?
In other news a radio commercial claiming that ‘taxation is theft’ (source) was banned this week.
Dutch for the Average Joe. ↩︎
