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CDA prepared to increase home owners taxTuesday 08 June 2010 The Christian Democrats do not want to reduce the tax break which people can claim on their mortgages but is prepared to put up another tax only paid by home owners, CDA leader Jan Peter Balkenende said in an interview with BNR radio, one day ahead of the general election. The woningforfait [housing tax] can be used to ask the better off to show solidarity, the outgoing prime minister said. The Financieele Dagblad says changes to the home owners tax could be a way out of the impasse which threatens to hold up the formation of a new cabinet because parties are sharply divided on mortgage tax relief. The home owners tax is based on the official evaluation of a property by the local authority and is supposed to 'counteract' the advantage of home ownership over paying rent. © DutchNews.nl
Sounds like a stupid idea, why don't they just leave the system as it is?! By Joe | June 8, 2010 3:39 PM and thus 2 separate administrative processes need to be maintained. Rewarding Peter to rob the gentiles and to pay Paul - to use language JP would no doubt revel in. Thank goodness this man will no longer be around after today.... By john e boy | June 9, 2010 9:18 AM well, if nobody owns houses, nobody can rent houses....and everybody will live in the open air! By joanna | June 9, 2010 12:54 PM This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! The end effect is the same either way but under the CDA suggestion you have no decrease in administrative burden PLUS it will affect middle-class home owners disproportionally more that rich home owners. By Marc | June 9, 2010 8:31 PM
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So what precisely are the perceived advantages of being a home owner rather than paying rent?
By john walsh | June 8, 2010 3:22 PM