During May 1 Socialist, Paul Magnette, president of the PS, criticized the plans of the federal government. According to him, there has not been such an offensive against the world of work since the sixties and the single law … A stone that the PS sends in the MR garden?
The unemployment reform is only one of the pieces of the puzzle that the government is building. And I understand that this puzzle is disturbing for the PS … This government headlines the vision of the world of French -speaking socialists who is based on assistantship and the maintenance of people in precariousness in order to be able to manipulate and embrigade them.
What is this “puzzle” is made up of?
The great consistency of the Arizona project is to reward the people who work. In Belgium, there are 170,000 vacant jobs and 320,000 unemployed … The shortage of labor shortage must find staff. On the budgetary level, an unemployed who finds work, it is at least 28,000 euros in positive effects for the budget since they are less than paying allowances. And this also brings social contributions to state funds. At the tax level, we will increase the wages of workers. In terms of competitiveness, we will reduce the cost of labor. We also have the file “back to work“, which aims to facilitate the return to work: there are 520,000 long-term patients in Belgium. It is as much as in Germany … except that the German population is eight times higher! Finally, there will be a real reform of the labor market, which is too rigid. Frank Vandenbroucke (Federal Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Vooruit), Jan Jambon (Minister of Finance and I) Advance in the same direction: the valuation of the work.
Not quite in the same direction … Conner Rousseau, president of Vooruit, said that he would bring the federal coalition to fall if he did not get the tax on the capital gains he wishes.
This tax appears in the government agreement. This is a concession that the MR made, we were obviously not requesting. But we will be loyal: the capital gains tax is part of the federal puzzle of which I was talking about. Conner Rousseau recalled his point of view. You will have to find a compromise in the coming months. It is planned that we are advancing in concert on unemployment reform and the tax on capital gains. We will find a solution. Intercabinets take place and Vooruit can get his messages there. The tax will see the light of day, yes, but it must rather touch speculators, those who buy cryptocurrencies and not the good father or the independent who has a business and wants to give in to his children.
towerThe tax will see the light of day, yes, but it must rather touch speculators, those who buy cryptocurrencies and not the good father or the independent who has a business and wants to give in to his children.“
In his initial project, Jan Jambon proposes to exempt the capital gains made on assets that have been kept for at least ten years. Does it go in the right direction?
Yes. It is a good work base. But I don’t want to go into details. This must be discussed in intercabinets.
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-The first stages of the limitation file in time of unemployment benefits were crossed in the “Easter Agreement” of the federal government. On the other hand, the tax on capital gains remains subject to negotiations within Arizona. Vooruit no longer has a negotiation force to pass this measure as part of a great compromise, estimates Thierry Bodson, boss of the FGTB.
This is not correct. It was clearly agreed that the two reforms would be born, even if the timing is not the same. The contours of the capital gains will be decided before the final “Go” on unemployment reform. The two files are coupled, it is no secret.
This “widest shoulders” tax must bring 500 million a year to the federal budget. But the tax revenues they could allow are impossible to estimate because the market capital gains depend on the behavior of the markets. However, they recently collapsed.
It is inherent in the construction of a budget that is still based on hypotheses, on a predictive work in revenue and expenditure. As this is a new tax, it is very difficult to estimate your performance, it’s true. And this yield will vary a lot depending on the behavior of the scholarship. In any case, I will remain attentive to the file because no tax strikes the rich only. It will therefore be necessary to calibrate the tax on capital gains so that it does not touch the middle classes. Let us try to really target only speculators that act on cryptocurrencies and that kind of mechanisms.
David Clarinval: “The FGTB attacks us because their business model is in danger”
The FGTB said that it would attack the limitation of unemployment benefits.
It was predictable and we had anticipated this desire to attack in court. I regret that the FGTB encourages its affiliates to go to court rather than going to work … The FGTB is also stiffened because its business model is reached: it pays unemployment benefits and finds a financial interest.
No, it costs unions to pay unemployment more than not to do so.
This is what the FGTB says in any case … We are one of the only countries in the world where unions pay the allowances. They find it an interest of course. If only by establishing personal contact with people.
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