ruling rushes to accept new taxes

The fact that Lithuanian performers will collect not only full arenas but also stadiums was once only dreamed.

« Here is some Soviet legacy that culture is something, I don’t know, the poor sister, wherever you have fun. Pay attention to where it was often, and that’s what it’s hard to sing on that scene?

Commercial events are now ascended. Although there are no official statistics, one ticket distributor estimates that about $ 2 million a year. tickets to various concerts. As much as 70 percent. Revenue arenas receive not from sports matches, but from concerts and other cultural events.

« We are trying to count how much the entertainment business generates money in a year to say when we come to the government – see, there is no » Sing « service here. There is a serious business here, ”Tyla said.

So the entertainment business is angry – just starting to get in, and the government is already inserting the wheels.

« This tax increase reform is cutting a branch on which the success of Lithuania is sitting, » said Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, a member of the Seimas (LRLS).

Photo by J. Elinsk / ELTA

« Those who are engaged in individual activities receive a high income and will certainly have a great motivation to change their location, » said Gintare Skaistė, a member of the Seimas (TS-LKD).

M. Silence says that talk about tax increases alone is a problem. Huge concerts are organized not in the evening, and some advertising companies do not stop even the signing contracts signed.

« Planned advertising times, thoughts, ideas, implementations. It is a pity, but I received two letters that were very clearly written that due to the uncertain, unstable situation in Lithuania, they stop their activities, » said M. Silence.

And the governors do not intend to stop.

« There is still a driving and in this case, because there is a large ruling majority, » explained V. Čmilytė-Nielsen.

Tax reform is now under consideration in the Seimas committees.

« We see what the opposition is doing – some members of the Seimas are asking for breaks and experts’ conclusions, » said Algirdas Sysas, Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee.

There is little time, so it plows without a respite. Three extraordinary meetings have been planned this week alone, with only one.

« It is pressured because we should handle tax laws by the end of June to prevent the first day of February or April to come, » Sys said.

Photo by S. Stanislovaitis / ELTA

« It reminds me of Kubilius’ night tax reform, which we know as it ended. This reform will be similar, because now, see, brought to the Seimas – quickly, quickly, one month, in a hurry, we will go through his head, » said the Seimas member (LJU).

Although the Minister of Finance walked from the cabinet to the cabinet, everything is now only in the hands of the Seimas.

« That law must be of good quality. The fact that the discussion takes place in many stages and guarantees that we will not make mistakes, we will not adopt a law that will then turn the other side – which will benefit the damage, » said Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius.

New variants are coming every day, so it is still unclear what the reform proposed by R. Šadžius will turn.

« If we want to reduce something – we will be taxed. If we want people to smoke less – we will be taxed with cigarettes. If we want to drink less – we are taxed on alcohol. These decisions that tax people will naturally reduce people’s income, » said Vytautas Šilinskas.

« He is unable to think right, think a few steps ahead, and is guided by potentially short -term emotions, » Tyla said.

Real estate tax is likely to change the most.

« That cacophony of suggestions simply shows that there is no consensus. It is also not in the ruling coalition, so it is likely that that debate in parliament can change the law completely unrecognizably, » Skaistė said.

Business has repeated a hundred times that the proportion of taxes will leave Lithuania after increasing taxes.

« I’m sorry, they didn’t say where they would move? Where do they find such a favorable tax regime, regulation as in Lithuania? » – previously stated by Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas.

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It looks like he had found intercessors among the « Dawn ». One of them offers to increase VAT instead of taxes to 22 percent.

« This is not a proposal of a fraction, the mandate is free. Business is not a milking cow, business cannot be the only loaded tax, » explained the Seimas member (NA) Karolis Neimantas.

« There are quite a few proposals for the draft tax laws submitted, but so far I do not see any critical or odyssic, or something very unreasonable, except maybe another – VAT increase, which is certainly not in the coalition agreement or the Government program, » the prime minister said.

Remigijus Žemaitaitis is currently on vacation, but has announced that the faction will not support such a proposal. It seems that the « Dawn » voters are so angry that they voted for the real estate tax and that they are in general the tax reform.

« Now, the other half of people are unhappy. I am educated in this attitude: sometimes it is not that he wants, but that he needs it, » said Neimantas.

K. Neimantas, to the claim that the other side are their voters, who are unhappy, replied, « We do not want to, but that we need it. »

The tax reform is expected to return to the meeting room in early June.