Thinly with support to households in the spring budget

Although the government in its spring budget warns of worse times shining Support for households with his absence.

– It is relatively crisp and no direct investments that strengthen households’ wallets, says Stefan Westerberg, private economist at Länsförsäkringar.

However, raised root deductions and early rules for the unemployment insurance fund are items in the budget that can affect the wallets.

The large private economic The part of the government’s spring budget is the increased ROT deduction. The new rules mean that 50 percent of the labor cost can be deducted, a maximum of SEK 50,000 per person per year.

Today, 30 percent applies to root services with SEK 50,000 per person per year as a roof. The government has allocated SEK 4.35 billion to this measure. The new root rules will be introduced from May 12 and apply to the year out.

However, the private economists are skeptical about how much help households receive from this measure.

« This reform is more to support the industry in the first place, than to support households, » says Arturo Arques, Swedbank and the savings banks’ private economist.

He is supported by Américo Fernández, private economist at SEB

– I am skeptical that you put so much on the root deduction that does not meet many households, he says.

– The National Institute of Economic Research has also expected that it will have small effects, he continues.

Stefan Westerberg, Länsförsäkringar’s private economist, is on the same line.

– Very selective action. It has no wide impact on households over the law and it does not strengthen the wallets for those who have the worst, he says.

On the loser side there are long-term unemployed when the rules for the unemployment insurance fund change. That change was intended to come into force on October 1, but will be moved in the spring change budget until the beginning of August.

According to calculations by Swedbank and the savings banks’ private economist Arturo Arques, this means an improvement in the first 100 days for those who earn SEK 34,000 or more a month. But then the compensation is reduced for all income layers.

-It will be a increase with the roof of the a-cash but then it will be a step down. This means that those who are unemployed will long receive a worse compensation, says Arturo Arques.

An action that has been found in Speculation before was an extension of the supplementary contribution to families with children with housing allowance, which is now 25 percent June.

– I thought they would extend it to the turn of the year. Now, the Minister of Finance does not rule out that they will return if the situation is exacerbated, says Arturo Arques.

Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson (M) received several questions about support for households when she presented the budget at a press conference. She pointed out, among other things, that previous tax cuts provide support to households. When it comes to the ROT deduction, she believes that it will have a positive spread effects that can have a positive impact on households.

– We will return if things get worse, she says.

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