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FRP leader Siv Jensen announces SP leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum as the new “king of taxes”. – Rates increase more in municipalities where Sp has the chain of mayors, he says.
– You can’t say that city fees and property tax don’t count, says FRP leader Siv Jensen. Photo: Berit Roald
Siv Jensen has grown tired of being accused by the SP leader as a former finance minister of having raised rates by NOK 6.5 billion for most people.
FRP staff have now read Statistics Norway statistics and found new ammunition.
– Trygve creates the impression that Sp is fighting taxes. If we look at what they are actually doing, they are doing the opposite.
– Municipalities controlled by SP are the hardest to collect municipal fees and property taxes. Sp thrones at the top of all charts. So I think Trygve should start cleaning his own house or sweeping the barn, he says.
FRP has analyzed what is paid in municipal taxes and property taxes for an average house of 120 square meters.
- In six of the 10 municipalities with the highest property tax, Sp has the mayor.
- The three municipalities with the highest tax rate Sør-Aurdal (NOK 25,493), Flesberg (NOK 24,610) and Engerdal (NOK 23,239), have SP mayors.
– The truth is that he is not only the king of the chains of mayors. He’s also the king of taxes, Jensen believes.
– The government has lobbied many municipalities to increase the property tax, says SP leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum. Photo: Heiko Junge
Q: It is not allowed to use the rates
Slagsvold Vedum rejects that EP rapporteurs are expensive rapporteurs. In many cases, they also manage together with, among others, Frp:
– Municipalities cannot use fees to collect revenue. The law requires that rates be set according to the cost principle. Unlike Siv, which charged fees to finance other measures, he says.
The SP leader explains the high rates by saying that “smaller municipalities usually have the longest way to the houses.”
– Reality is as it is. We want everyone to have public water and sewer. Needless to say, it’s easier in a block with a point than where there are 500 meters between the houses, he says.
– The government is putting pressure on small municipalities
According to Vedum, many municipalities feel compelled to increase property taxes. Blame the government.
– The property tax was historically high last year. The government has changed the distribution of income and pressured small municipalities to merge. Rates increase more in municipalities that have merged.
– She has a lot of responsibility for that. Here, Siv Jensen finds herself at the tax door, she says.
– Doesn’t it matter if the municipality has a SP or FRP mayor?
– There may be variations, but it is not allowed to use taxes for income. But Sp has 130 municipalities and Frp probably has one or two. It is not possible to compare, he concludes.
Siv Jensen says that “the municipalities had NOK 30 billion on the books before we entered the government. Today they have double. “
– In addition, the municipal economy has been strengthened for the only year, so it does not last. It is probably rather the absence of the ability to prioritize in the municipal economy. So you turn to the simplest weapon: taking money out of your citizens’ pockets, he says.
– Not just state taxes
– Does Vedum point out that municipalities cannot charge more in fees than the costs of the service?
– For ordinary people, fees are an expense, whether it is the state or the municipality that collects them. It is the sum of them that ultimately becomes stressful. Do you think most people distinguish between these fees?
– It cannot be said that municipal taxes and property taxes do not count, here we will only see what the state does, Jensen responds.
She believes “Trygve spends all his energy shooting me instead of doing something where he can.”
And that you should send a march order to your local politicians and say: Reduce the municipal tax burden. Do not introduce or increase property taxes.
– Wilder than Sp
-Is it correct that Frp has increased taxes in the government?
– It is true that some taxes have risen, especially environmental ones. But we are not the ones who have insisted on increasing them. But we have accepted it. But the overall level of taxes and duties has dropped, he says.
The FRP leader believes the burden will increase with a red-green government because “Trygve will cooperate with parties that are even wilder than he is when it comes to adjusting taxes and fees.”
– There is no one in all of Norway who can believe that taxes and fees will be lower with Trygve Slagsvold Vedum in government. They will just go up. If he had been really concerned about doing something about fees, he would have switched sides in politics, Jensen concludes.
