Because to look closely, this is neither a reform nor a historical tilting, but a stroke of painting on a lizarded wall. A symbolic “plus” for workers, a “less” microscopic for employers, and a tax policy which remains what it has always been: complex, unstable, overloaded. Rewarding work is obviously a necessity. No one disputes it. But imagining that a few more posts of 20 euros on a monthly pay sheet will relaunch the attractiveness of the labor market is either naive, or cynicism. The stake is elsewhere. It is in the stimulation of the job market (and not only by the degression of unemployment benefits), in training, support, occupational health, in the fight against these battalions of long -term patients left in the open countryside. It is in the simplification of a tax system that has become an abstruse mille-feuille where each new tax, like that on capital gains, completes to discourage taxpayers as much as investors.
Who is affected by the new capital gains tax?
The truth is there: we do not reform a country with calibrated advertisements to flatter opinion. We do not reconstruct the confidence by distributing some tickets under the pretext of inevitable austerity. What is sorely lacking is not the ability to impose – Belgium, world champion of taxes, knows how to do it – is the ability to reform in depth. Belgium needs a grooming much more in -depth than a drop in load of a few tens of euros per month. This “xxl” tax reform that has been agitating the political world for years, when is we talking about it?
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