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This is how important parts of the new Progress Party program should be interpreted.
Now it is the lower taxes that should be prioritized. This message is in stark contrast to what FRP leader Siv Jensen carried out as Minister of Finance from fall 2013 to the new year 2020.
During this period, Frp helped raise taxes by more than NOK 6 billion.
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It is part of history that the Erna Solberg government reduced total taxes and fees by NOK 26 billion. Now FRP Deputy Director Sylvi Listhaug promises to prioritize lower taxes over tax relief. She has chaired the committee that has now submitted the proposal for a new FRP program. Here are a lot of known FRP policies.
The party wants an even stricter immigration policy and says no to a common asylum system in the EU. In addition, the FRP will extend the maximum prison sentence from 21 to 50 years. FRP goes its own way by promising lower taxes on diesel and gasoline.
The party will also facilitate increased oil and gas activities on the Norwegian shelf.
But it is fiscal policy that is the most interesting of the new FRP program. Listhaug mentions in particular the tariffs that lead many Norwegians for years to make pilgrimages to Sweden to buy cheap there.
The reduction of taxes on soft drinks, alcohol and snus will be a key point by the Progress Party in the upcoming negotiations on the state budget next year. The aim of Frp is a harmonization to minimize cross-border trade and thus create jobs in Norway.
It is true that FRP insists that the wealth tax will be lowered and eventually eliminated, but it is lower taxes that now have a higher priority. The reason is that lower taxes will benefit most of the people, and therefore the regular FRP voter.
But here the FRP finds historical traces.
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With the FRP in government, taxes have increased by $ 6.3 billion. Shows figures from the Ministry of Finance. The electricity tax, the CO2 tax, the new flight tax and the higher VAT are just a few examples.
SP leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum has consistently criticized FRP leader Siv Jensen for being a part of this tax carousel.
Sylvi Listhaug’s new focus on lower rates must be viewed from this perspective.
FRP’s strategy is to bring back FRP sympathizers who have fled to the Center Party. It is important to increase support for the FRP so that in the next round there can also be a bourgeois majority in the 2021 elections.
The question is whether these voters now believe that the FRP will be able to cut taxes. The history of the period with the FRP in government says it was the other way around. It is uncomfortable to find yourself in a political revolving door.
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