(Dagbladet): – District Politics is about local democracy and to facilitate private business, more than about transfers, said Government and modernization Minister Jan Tore Sanner in his speech to the Conservative convention this morning.
He announced a new model corporation that ensures municipalities more of tax revenue.
Rewards wealth creation
– We will reward municipalities that facilitate business and create jobs across the country. If Parliament says yes, we will reward business friendly municipalities from 2017.
– In Sundsvold platform is disclosed municipalities to retain a share of the corporation tax, as it was before 2008.
The municipality gets at present no share of company tax. Municipalities are rewarded with tax revenues to facilitate housing and new residents, but not to facilitate jobs. Now we give municipalities reward for contributing to growth and value creation, said Sanner.
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– The old scheme corporation has increasingly come the major municipality to good. The model we now have in place, allows small and large municipalities across the country.
Will municipalities
– We start with salaries sum in the private sector. This means that growth in existing businesses and new jobs are rewarded by
municipalities receive tax revenues from nærihgsvirksomhet not only from personal services, he said to Dagbladet.
The principles of the new tax model presented in conjunction with the municipal bill in May. Funds equivalent to about 1 per cent of the revenue from corporation tax – around 3 billion – to be given to municipalities that note growth in jobs and wealth creation.
– We come with a new model that ensures municipalities to retain more of the value creation happens locally, says Sanner.
Moves power and responsibility
In his speech he said that the government shift power and responsibility from the state to local communities and local politicians.
– The good society is built from below, of individuals, families and communities. Power and responsibility should be placed as close to the individual as possible. We have confidence to local decisions. We go from centralization and micromanagement to decentralization and dispersion of power, said Sanner.
– Local Democracy was overrun
– A good yardstick for confidence in local democracy is opposition proceedings. Cases where the municipality and the local community has one wish, while state and regional interests have another. It is precisely those who live, work and live in communities across our country who know what challenges their communities face.
Under the coalition lost municipalities in nearly 60 percent of the cases, we have given the municipalities directly in almost 7 out of 10 cases, said Sanner. .
– We have given clear message to government agencies that barriers to say no to the municipality, should be significantly higher. It also allows municipalities and government agencies sit down and find good solutions. It also makes it’s been fewer opposition proceedings, says Sanner.
He said that the Conservative / FRP government has changed regional policy.
– We base it on residence requirements and regulation, but of desire and opportunity, because we facilitate through good welfare services and roads. Restructuring must act to create value and jobs across the country.
Ap on autopilot
Aps congress was a congress on autopilot. They have not taken into account the fact that oil prices have halved. They are more keen to share values than to create. It seems that they have forgotten the old slogan of the need to create to share, said Sanner.
– So Right has a better distrktspolitikk than the coalition?
– Yes, I mean it. For regional policy is about local democracy and to facilitate private business, more than about transfers.
Critical
Government cooperation parties Left and KrF positive to true model but stresses that they must await the final proposal before giving the green light. On red-green side is cool response, according to NTB.
– The government rewards municipalities that are lucky and get big business establishments, and punishes those who lose cornerstone enterprise or fish plant, says Labour’s local government policy spokeswoman Helga Pedersen told NRK.
She is especially critical of the tax payment seems to be based on developments over the past four years.
Rewards the richest
– It gets very cyclical. It will reward municipalities that Hammerfest, which gets Goliath rig and punish many of the municipalities that have been strong on the supplier side, she says.
SV Karin Andersen says Sanner and Right “takes from the poor and giving to the rich.”
– Centralizes
– It is impossible to understand that municipalities are struggling with business development, to be better at it, if they get less money, she says to NRK. Centre Party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum believes the proposal from Sanner will seem centralizing and reward municipalities that do well from before.
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