There will be no capital gains tax to cover the shortages. That is what Open VLD chairman Egbert Lachaert said in ‘The Morning’ on Radio 1.
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At the beginning of this month, the federal government reached an agreement on the securities tax. A solidarity contribution of 0.15 percent per year will be requested on all securities accounts with an average value of more than 1 million euros. The proceeds, according to the administration’s first conservative estimates, some 420 million euros per year, will go to the financing of health care.
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The question, however, is whether that tax will suffice. When asked whether there should be no capital gains tax on the profits made on the sale of houses or shares, Lachaert answered very clearly “no”. “For Open VLD this was a breaking point in the formation of the government,” says Lachaert. “We would not join a government if there were such a tax. The coalition agreement states that a fair contribution will be made by those people who have the greatest capacity. That’s that securities tax. There will be no more. ”
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“There were other coalition agreements that put four billion euros as the proceeds of such a capital gains tax. We, as liberals, have said of this: we do not. If you want to have billions in returns, it will not end up with the strongest shoulders, but with the middle class. Then you put taxes on the middle class and we absolutely don’t want that. ”
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See also: Lachaert: “Request extra contribution from the richest 1%”
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