Når SKAT tager det hele og stadig vil have mere!
110 procent i skat.
Så meget blev virksomhedsejeren Jacob Thorngaard mødt med, efter Skattestyrelsen havde gennemgået hans forhold.
Han havde drevet egen virksomhed i 20 år. Men fordi han i en periode på to år havde én stor kunde, besluttede Skattestyrelsen efterfølgende, at han reelt skulle betragtes som lønmodtager.
Resultatet var, at de samme penge blev beskattet både som indkomst fra selvstændig virksomhed og som lønindkomst.
Det burde være en selvfølge, at ingen borger kan blive opkrævet mere i skat, end vedkommende har tjent. Alligevel har skiftende skatteministre i årevis kendt til problemet uden at få det løst.
Den tidligere regering bestilte endda en rapport, som skulle anvise, hvordan den form for overbeskatning kunne forhindres. Rapporten blev færdig i november og har siden samlet støv i ministeriet. Skattelovrådet, der skrev den, er i mellemtiden nedlagt.
Og Jacob? Ja, han er i mellemtiden flyttet til Sverige, der nu kan glæde sig over hans fremtidige skattebetalinger.
Helt ærligt, det burde være satire, men det er desværre virkeligheden. Det er både en urimelig behandling af danske borgere, men det er så sandelig også et tab for Danmark som samfund.
Når en helt almindelig borger kan ende med at betale 110 procent i skat, uden at nogen reagerer, så er der en grundlæggende balance mellem borger og stat, der er brudt sammen.
Løsningen er ikke flere lappeløsninger og udvalg. Vi skal have saneret skattelovgivningen fra bunden med færre uforståelige regler, færre fradrag og en fladere, lavere skat, som almindelige mennesker kan gennemskue. Og så skal vi have genoprettet retssikkerheden, så tvivl og systemfejl aldrig kommer borgeren til skade.
Danskerne fortjener et skattesystem, der respekterer dem, der finansierer det.
In English, this headline reads: “New Trump statement: We must have Greenland”.
I say: enough with the velvet gloves.
The United States is acting as an adversary of Greenland and Denmark. Therefore, the U.S. Consulate in Nuuk should be closed. All American diplomats in Greenland should be expelled.
Any American who sets foot on Danish soil and advocates that the United States should take over Greenland should be arrested and deported.
NATO should be convened for consultations because a foreign state is attempting to alter the constitutional status of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Let me end on a friendly note: congratulations to the United States on 250 years of independence tomorrow.
I only wish there were some American products we could throw into the harbour in Nuuk. By your actions leading up to July 4, 1776, you showed the rest of us exactly what one should do with an arrogant colonial power.
Your example from back then remains an inspiration.
Thank you again.
Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.
The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.
Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.
The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.
Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.
The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.
The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.
This is your tax money.
It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.
We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.
Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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