Abolition of tax reduction costs the unemployed from 2026 at least 200 euros per month, according to lecture by Jambons Cabinet chief

Cabinet chief Wesley De Visscher gave a lecture on Monday evening for a fee about the fiscal plans of the government at SBM in Bruges. After criticism in parliament, the Jambon cabinet released sound recordings of the symposium on Tuesday evening. According to opposition parties Open VLD and Groen, it appears that De Visscher did indeed provide the participants that the minister could not or would not yet share in parliament. It concerns, among other things, details about the reform of the DBI allowance and the Carried Interesta regime for fund managers.

But De Visscher made a striking statement in Bruges: about the abolition of the tax reduction for unemployment benefits « nothing has appeared at all ». « I think nobody understands that well and certainly not journalists, » it sounds, but from next year that will be completely deleted and that benefit will suddenly be 200 euros less per month. (…) That is anyway ‘Ne serious’, I don’t think people understand what is about to happen.  » According to the cabinet chief, the abolition raises 370 million euros to the treasury, although there is a piece of the proceeds for the federal states.

The abolition of the tax reduction for unemployment benefits is stated in the coalition agreement under the ‘Rewarding Working’ hatch, but the details of the reform were not announced so far. Open VLD MP Vincent Van Quickenborne already asked Jambon in the Chamber on 25 February about the impact on an unemployed person, but then did not get an answer, he says.