– There are other things we need to focus on now after a pandemic, after we get our feet up and are left in a family travel life throughout Norway, Brimi says when TV 2 met him during the reopening of Tine’s dairy in Dovre on Wednesday.
– We must be seen and understood. For example, something must be done with the VAT on food, in addition to the fact that we need more skilled people, says Brimi.
The salmon billionaire’s criticism
When Prime Minister Erna Solberg took the Conservative Party’s election campaign tour of salmon billionaire Gustav Witzøe’s facility on Frøya at the end of July, the starting shot was fired for a heated dispute over the wealth tax in the election campaign.
According to the magazine Capital is Witzøe Norway’s sixth richest with a fortune in 2020 of NOK 33.5 billion.
There, Witzøe reached out to the wealth tax and said yes VG that the family will consider moving the wealth abroad if the wealth tax is increased after the election.
Culture of greed
– For most of us in Norway, when you hear and see such, it is so far from reality. That’s kind of a weird argument for most people, I think. For most people, such things are not suitable for anything other than creating almost contempt for people who do well, says Brimi, and adds:
– It is an important topic, certainly, wealth tax. But it is typical in Norway when we are in the situation we are in that this becomes in a way the image of a culture of greed, I think then, says Brimi.
The celebrity chef himself pays around 110.00 kroner a year in wealth tax.
Brimi received Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre during the opening of the dairy in Dovre on Wednesday. Støre gives Brimi full support and criticizes the Conservatives for going to the polls for further cuts in wealth tax.
– I think the criticism that has come is completely inappropriate. It brings out a difference in politics, because it has happened in the last eight years that they have received a lot of cuts, for which someone has paid a price. And now the Conservatives promise that it will continue, says Støre.
– ANSWER: Minister of Finance Jan Tore Sanner (H). Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen
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Right about Brimi: – Low goals
Minister of Finance and Conservative Deputy Jan Tore Sanner answers this:
– I think it is a low goal to label entrepreneurs, managers of small and medium-sized companies too greedy because they think it is unfair that they have to pay wealth tax even if the company runs a loss, Sanner says to TV 2.
Facts: The wealth tax
Wealth tax is a tax on the economic value of the person who pays tax on his assets, less debt.
Important assets are cash, bank deposits, shares, movables and real estate. Since 2013, Erna Solberg’s government has reduced the wealth tax by more than NOK 9 billion.
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