Det her er bestemt ikke breaking news, men det er en interessant historie der aldrig vil blive nævnt i de etablerede medier, da den går stik imod de korrekte holdninger.
I 2007 indførte Bulgarien 10% virksomhedsskat og i 2008 indførte de 10% flad indkomstskat. Det har medført at landet, selv under den økonomiske krise i 2008, præsterede fremgang i økonomien og vendte et statsligt budgetunderskud til et overskud! Dette er vel og mærke opnået ved at forsimple skattesystemet og sænke skatteprocenten voldsomt. Landet har haft op til 40% progressiv indkomstskat førhen hvor økonomien stod i stampe. Det skal tilføjes at Bulgarien også indtrådte i EU på dette tidspunkt, så det gode resultat skyldes nok både en sænkning af handelsbarrierer (til det indre marked) og skattereformen.
Når vi i Danmark mener at den sociale massegrav indtræder ved en flad 40% beskatning og at man ved at justere bare en smule i topskatten er et ubehageligt menneske, er det nok sundt at se lidt på hvad der sker i andre dele af verden og på hvad rigtige skattereformer rent faktisk kan medføre.
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When the tax on incomes was decreased to 10%, the main drawbacks according to external analysts, was that this would be a significant loss of budget incomes. Although the tax reform was established with a consensus between almost all political parties in the parliament, the International Monetary Fund advised the government to cancel the tax decrease and they even sent a special mission to Bulgaria (in that time our country had an agreement with the IMF). Instead of IMF’s advice, our government has relied on our local economists, the tax reform wasn`t annulled and came into force as from 1st of January 2007. The tax reform and the association of Bulgaria in the European Union took place at the same time and the double effect of both changes had a huge impact. In spite of the IMF extrapolations, the incomes from taxes increased significantly. The incomes from the decreased tax have jumped with up to 40% and instead of the expected deficit the budget has reported a big surplus. 2007 reported a record in the attracted foreign investments, during the year in the country entered almost 14 billion euro external capitals. (mine fremhævninger)
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