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The mayor of the center party in the western municipality of Vestnes will copy the controversial change of the wealth tax in Bø. Hope this attracts celebrities from western Norway.
INVITATION: The Mayor of Spain, Geir Inge Lien, wants to attract celebrities from western Norway back to the village with cuts to the estate tax.
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– We see that, like Nordland, we are losing a lot of jobs in the government and then we must find ways to get more private companies to establish themselves here, Geir Inge Lien tells VG.
Recently, Norwegian “tax refugees” have brought billions to the small conservative municipality of Bø in Vesterålen.
Now the mayor of Bø, Sture Pedersen, has also managed to inspire the other parties.
This week it became known that the government gives Bø an exception of the regulations so that they can lower the wealth tax. On the weekend spoke on behalf of the MDGs to change the regulations.
Investigating the consequences
The small municipality of Vestnes in Møre og Romsdal with more than 6,000 inhabitants has long struggled with relocation. The Supervisory Board has now asked the administration to study the consequences of the same model as Bø.
Sunnmørsposten was the first to mention the case.
– We are now investigating the consequences and whether it is possible to compensate for a possible loss, says Lien.
Waiting for the power of celebrities
The mayor of Vestnes hopes that the measure, as in Bø, can attract large profiles.
– We hope we can get, for example, Kjell Inge Røkke or Ole Gunnar Solskjær or Kjetil Rekdal, laughs the mayor.
– If you could put them together with the young people here, it would be very good, he says.
– So how does this fit with the policy of the Center Party in general?
– I do not see that we are in any way on a collision course with what the party represents.
– But attracting rich people with lower taxes has never been Sp’s main policy, right?
– I see it. But we want to grow responsibly. There really is nothing more dramatic than that.
The leader of the Center Party, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, is not available to comment on the matter, but the party’s municipal policy spokesperson, Heidi Greni, writes the following in an SMS to VG through her adviser.
– It is up to the elected local representatives in the individual municipality to govern their own local communities.
TAX HAVEN: In Mayor Sture Pedersen’s Bø Municipality, after the New Year you only have to pay 0.35% in wealth tax.
Birkeland, Marius
– There will be more creative measures
The mayor of Bø finds it gratifying to know that he has now managed to inspire despite party limits.
“I think it’s great that more people are thinking this way,” Pedersen tells VG.
After the New Year, the tax in the municipality will be reduced to 0.35 percent, up from 0.85 percent today. The change has prompted several wealthy Norwegian people to report a transfer to the municipality. Among them is the surprising Bjørn Dæhlie.
– This is not the last creative initiative that we will come up with. I have abandoned the belief that the public sector will save the small municipality. It is the municipalities themselves that must do it, says Pedersen.
