It is said that if you disagree with taxes, you are not patriot

Former Minister of Finance, Deputy Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee (TS-LKD) Gintare Skaistė talked more about this.

– If this proposal is much more aggressive if the real estate (real estate) fee has been assessed separately than what the previous government has proposed. Separately by taking this fee, this minister is more aggressive.

– Tell your calculations, why do you think your tax that would have been for everyone is much looser?

– For the first home, our proposal for rates was between 0.06 and 0.1, current proposals are between 0.1 and 1 percent. This means that sometimes higher rates than proposed by the previous government were sometimes higher. Even the tax -free cartel said – 40 thousand. – In our case, it was 1.5 municipal average. During this period, the tax -free cartel would have been about 90 thousand. euros.

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– Very much like the minister is counting now, especially for the family if there are 40,000. Will the Ministry of Finance make it easy to collect this fee according to these calculations?

– There are space for certain manipulation. There is an opportunity to overlap, to write down the property. A group of people who do not pay taxes, say, socially disadvantaged persons appear. We will see what the situation in reality will look like. Ensuring the collection will be the duty of the tax office.

– Will the Conservatives support this project?

– We had discussed the past option that the coalition was introduced, as the option that could be provided. For that option, we were determined to disagree. Now I would say that I do not have an official faction position, but I think the essential elements of criticism remain this real estate tax offer, so at least I would personally tend to refrain from approval and I think there are elements that are offered in the overall tax package that can be approved. However, the real estate fee is probably not that part.

– In any case, the minister did what you had agreed with the European Commission. It will now be possible to pick up some of that money from the European Recovery Fund.

– Not quite. This is to manipulate this, to say that the former government has forced to bring a tax. Liabilities to the European Commission are very abstract – written « property taxes » and « raise more funds from property taxes ». What charge to construct is the choice of this Government. I would be ready to vote for the model prepared by the former government. If you are given a completely different, more aggressive, more tax -demanding model that I think is not correct, I don’t think I should agree.

– Let’s talk about other taxes. I would like to hear your reaction. Entrepreneurs say there are many important phrases. One of them is that when the economic storm rampant, Lithuania just cut sails for itself and will have to forget about economic growth. When it comes to real estate tax and all others registered by the Ministry of Finance – higher PIT, VAT rate. How do you find it, will it really be a big impact on the economy?

– This will probably depend on the situation outside the Atlantic and what the customs duties will look like – whether they will be introduced or will not be. In this case, you will see the impact of those turbulence in general. Today, telling what our economy will look like is early enough. The Ministry of Finance appreciated what could happen.

– 0.2 percent of GDP.

– following that central scenario.

– Is that a lot?

– Relatively evaluating, the effect is probably not as great as it can be worried. There is no way to be a wolf saturated and sheep are healthy. If you need much more defense costs than before, somehow you need to collect them. I am more worried about the fact that the common package presented by the Ministry of Finance is further planned to raise over $ 700 million. euros. Meanwhile, about $ 500 million would travel to the Defense Fund. Will it not be the case that we will partially finance the implementation of certain Social Democrats’ promises by agreeing to finance the defense needs? Who would probably not be solidarity in this situation.

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– What would probably be logical because the Social Democrats were elected voters.

– Everything is attempted to attach a defense label – to say that if you do not agree with taxes, you are not patriot. Meanwhile, some of the income that will be collected from a wide circle will travel, partly, apparently some other decisions promised by the Social Democrats. I do not feel committed to implementing them.

– Tens of thousands of people will be charged, especially for those who work according to individual activities. Your goal was to fight the shadow economy, making people who have small businesses work individually, are easy and easy to pay taxes. Do you think a higher rate can be a step back? Will the cash settlement be again, will the shadow economy increase?

I do not feel committed to implementing them.

– Apparently, it will depend on other actions. We can see that the ruling coalition registers the proposals to increase the threshold from which cash is prohibited. It means that cash may return more broadly. In this case, apparently for the shadow economy, it would be a impetus. Apparently will depend on many aspects. In terms of specifically this option, both the former and the Government – the proposals are concerned with high -income individuals engaged in individual income. They do not touch low -income persons. Apparently, I would not notice the direct impact on the shadow economy. There are much more aggressive offers there – not only individual activities, but also progressive rates, which are really high.

– You say big steps.

– It seems to me that 36 percent are really big.

– You say there are a handful of people who get such money, seemingly over 60 average wages.

– 36 percent would be offered to people who earn over 120 average wages a year. These are really good income people. These are the people who can leave.

– You say you leave Lithuania.

– Yes. All governments were the teaching of talent to Lithuania, and high value -added jobs need to be created. People who have a really high income can choose where to create that job. I think that attracting talent is such aggressive, progressive rates will not contribute.