Outgoing Minister of Finance and CDA party leader Wopke Hoekstra is “embarrassed” by the list of violations of the law committed by the Tax and Customs Administration, the minister said in the television program on Sunday. Buitenhof.
The list of violations was sent to the Lower House on Friday.
“Unfortunately it fits in with what we learned a year and a half ago”, says Hoekstra. Work is being done “with all the might” to solve the problems brought to light by the affair with the childcare allowance. “But I think you also have to be so honest that you cannot promise that it will be a thing of the past.”
CDA MP Pieter Omtzigt, who, together with SP member Renske Leijten, played a key role in revealing the affair, had asked for the list. The Tax and Customs Administration exceeded decision periods, acted in violation of privacy legislation and took decisions without or with poor motivation.
Documents were also withheld from citizens and judges, it was made unnecessarily difficult for parents to demonstrate their entitlement to benefits and benefits were discontinued or recovered without prior investigation.
According to Hoekstra, it is terrible how the victims of the affair “ended up under the wheels of the government”.
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