Pretty sad. Jeff Bezos - like him or not - supports Dutch businesses, adds to their GDP, buys a yacht etc. This is the thanks.
Do you think that because he is a billionaire he must be guilty of tax fraud? Or do you have some actual evidence?
I mean, that's the hope.
That’s a bit ridiculous. Just about everyone does their best to minimize the taxes they pay.
Where would you draw the line? The lawmakers drew one, but apparently you aren’t entirely happy with that.
With mixed results.
For sure everyone does their best to minimise the taxes they pay, but when you are the richest person in the world with some $200 billion, maybe you should be doing silly schemes like charity for tax avoidance.
Heck I tend to minimise my taxes, but often I don't even have such opportunity. The best I can do right now is contribute to my pensions. I'm on a current tax rate of around 50%. Outside that, there's not a lot I can do to minimise the tax I pay. Compare that the rich, who through their lobbying, and their schemes have paid an effective tax rate of around 3% over 5 years.
My statement is ridiculous to the rich, not so much to the rest of the population.
This should have said:
> When you have companies making millions paying less in taxes than the common folk who barely scrape by.
Not all people are wealth maniacs.
The 2017 government promised to not dismantle it anymore, but 2022 government seems to disagree. The important part we're missing are the risk assessments from engineers involved in the project.
As far as I understand from reading the news, the 2017 promise was mostly given because at that time the local government had left the bridge covered in scaffolding for an excessively long time.
Instead he's buying an obscene super-yacht - which probably has its own regular yacht and a few other ships that come with it - and dismantling a bridge to get it into the water. It is more obscene considering he could likely do all of this stuff without, you know, becoming poor - but it is only the really helpful stuff that isn't getting done.