After a weekend of work, the negotiators meet again this Monday.
Federal negotiators who met on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. to address the topic of taxation will continue their work until 10:00 p.m. It was already established at the end of the day that discussions on this theme will continue on Monday, from 1:00 p.m.
The presidents of the N-VA, MR, Engagés, Vooruit and CD&V met for the first time on Sunday at 2 p.m. on the theme of taxation, at least since this theme was briefly submitted to a group technical work last week. Tax reform is one of the most sensitive subjects of the federal formation, if only because the formation of the government on this subject has already failed twice.
Just last week, the subject gave rise to lively discussions, we learned from the negotiators. Among other things, the overall scale of the exercise has been at the center of a divergence. The CD&V, which had presented with the Minister of Finance Vincent Van Peteghem a tax reform project during the previous legislature, does not wish to reduce its scope too much. The MR of Georges-Louis Bouchez would propose another, more modest approach.
Interviewed Thursday evening, during the show “Thursday bonus“, the president of the Engagés, Maxime Prévot, had mentioned a reform of 5 billion euros – an amount of 10 billion had been cited previously – “with issues of support for competitiveness, purchasing power and those who work“, without specifying the terms on the table.
On Saturday, trainer Bart De Wever promised activists and supporters of the N-VA that the new government would in any case not increase the tax burden. He did not specify whether it would include a tax cut, as requested by Georges-Louis Bouchez.
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