Left-Trine will provide new tax credits in exchange for expensive gasoline – VG

ARENDAL (AP) Left leader Trine Skei Grande is launching a tax shift to screw up environmental taxes and taxes on petrol and diesel: She will give you tax crowns back in a new tax credit.

– It is time that everyone must pay more to pollute, but they should also get something back. Therefore, we propose now a separate environmental tax credit on your tax return, says Trine Skei Grande to VG.

– We are not looking to increase government revenue, but create a system where everyone gets the tax increase back on treasure, she adds.

Earlier this summer went Progress deputy Per Sandberg out of VG and opened for higher taxes on petrol and diesel. He would move all environmental taxes people pay, over in fuel taxes.

Went to Canada

Liberal leader is inspired by what she and Treasury and Progress Party leader Siv Jensen saw and experienced in Canada in July, when the two went on a study trip to Vancouver to study Canadians’ environmental tax policy.

– How much will the fuel cost in the Liberal proposal?

– We imagine well under a penny more in veibruksavgift, which is the tax on diesel and petrol. It does not take many dime before you get to a change in consumption pattern. It is also conceivable that something taken on gasoline taxes, and something on CO2 duties, says Grande.

4.5 billion in and out again

Left envisages tax increases on about 4.5 billion already in 2017.

Environment deduction on your tax return, which is the carrot in the Liberal proposal is estimated at 7,500 billion, equivalent to 1875 million in tax relief. Left want it to be a separate deductions that everyone gets in line with the minimum allowance.

Barter

– This is a pure barter, penny for penny. And Left may be willing to provide a larger tax deductions than income from the tax increase, if it is necessary to adopt our model, says Trine Skei Grande.

– Will it be possible to get government parties with this?

– FRP agree that the polluter should pay, and Siv Jensen’ve also seen the model in practice now in Canada. Left launching this proposal with the expectation that the four cooperating parties can put this into the state budget for 2017, she said.

Get down emissions

In the budget agreement from autumn 2015 committed cooperation Conservative Party, Progress Party, Liberal Party and Christian Democrats to make proposals for a green tax shift in the state budget for 2017. However, negotiations on this has been slow and has not led to any result so far VG know.

Liberal leader believes that the tax deduction will make it easier for people to accept higher environmental taxes, which she believes is required to reduce CO2 emissions and now Norway’s climate goals:

– It is becoming easier to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. After budget compromise with us last year, rolled it out now charging stations and hydrogen pumps across the country. The more climate friendly one act, the greater the net will get out of the tax deduction, she said.

– But what about those who do not pay taxes and thus do not get the pleasure of deduction?

– Left is willing to discuss arrangements for them too, but it’s not the pensioners who run most car in Norway, she says.

Well known

VG has submitted to the Liberal proposal for Siv Jensen, who had this comment on SMS Wednesday afternoon:

– That Left believes this is the well known. So is it that this naturally is a budgetary issue, and the state budget for 2017 I put forward in October, writes Jensen told VG.