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– Tariffs will be reduced by 9 billion crowns. It is important for ordinary income people and for Norwegian jobs, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum tells TV 2.
On Thursday, the Center Party will present its alternative state budget with electoral promises before next year’s parliamentary elections.
There they go to the polls to lower the level of taxes in Norway by several billion.
Nine billion in tax cuts
The most affected are taxes, after the FRP and the other bourgeois parties for almost eight years increased taxes by more than six billion crowns.
– How will people notice the tax cuts to Sp?
– There will be lower costs for the primary goods you buy, we must also ensure profitability in Norwegian workplaces, says Vedum.
EXIT: Siv Jensen, FRP leader, here on his way to the negotiation meeting at the Prime Minister’s office at Akershus Fortress in Oslo on Wednesday afternoon. Photo: Terje Bendiksby
Among the taxes that the Center Party wants to reduce are the VAT on transport services, the sugar tax and the tax on non-alcoholic beverages.
– Siv Jensen thought that the increase in rates was the answer, he also gave tax cuts to those who have the most. It was a fully conscious policy of Siv Jensen when she was Finance Minister. I think it was downright unwise because taxes affect ordinary people in a very difficult way, says Vedum.
The size should provide tax cuts
But the last time the Center Party was in government, from 2005 to 2013, taxes increased by NOK 4.8 billion.
– What credibility do you have in cutting taxes when you did not do it in government?
– So we’ve done it across our entire alternative state budget …
– But you didn’t do it in the government?
– I think there were things we could have done better then. I’ve said all the time, me, that Sp wasn’t perfect then. No one else was perfect then either.
– Why didn’t you get it then?
– Sp was smaller then than we are now. Part of the reason we have increased is that we have said that we will secure jobs in Norway, says Vedum.
Tax hit for the rich
The huge tax increases, Vedum says it will pay by cutting back on consulting services the state buys. Also, higher incomes will pay more in income taxes.
The Center Party wants those with 2-3 million incomes to raise their taxes by NOK 34,323 on average.
– We believe that those who earn more than 2 million crowns should pay a little more in taxes. They can afford it. Ordinary people should experience that they get slightly lower fees and taxes, says Vedum.
FRP has not responded to TV 2’s inquiries for comment on the case.
