DutchNews.nl, July 13, 2015
Foreign aid minister Lilianne Ploumen is to
introduce taxes on development aid when material for projects comes from the
Netherlands.
At the moment, the Netherlands does not pay value-added tax or
import levies on material sent to developing countries.
In an interview in
Trouw on Monday, she said this will be changed, although emergency aid will
remain untaxed.
The minister said she will also ask pensioned tax officials to
share their knowledge with the tax offices in developing countries. ‘A strong
tax system collects more money which can be used to fight poverty,’ she said.
Ploumen is currently in Ethiopia for a United Nations meeting to discuss how to
finance international development over the next 15 years.
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