Yle information: The government is reducing corporate tax to 18 percent and easing taxation for high-income earners.

by Logical_Feedback_981

29 comments

  1. Not a fan since my colleagues or even I could become unemployed because of this.

  3. So they can buy more assets? I don’t see how this will work, high-income earners don’t spend, middle and low income do. You spend money and stimulate economies when have to because it’s survival. I’ve never seen the benefit of helping the top end of town because they don’t trickle down anything, they bank more money.

    I’m not against wealthy people, a lot have earned it from hard work and perusing a job/dream to make it happen but they don’t need the help.

    If our kids and young people are struggling we are fucked, they can’t afford food, homes, cars, KIDS remember those rare species? The issue that Finland doesn’t have enough of?

  5. I’m a high earner and the only thing this is going to do is that I will have more money to invest. I am not going to buy any more services or products, nor will I work more. There won’t be more money going into the economy. 

  6. Just means more dividends for stockholders and foreign hedge funds…is that going to help the economy and dept? Not in a million years..lol

  7. I think that should only apply to small companies. Then should add ability to give temporary tax cuts or other perks to larger companies that want to move their business to Finland from other countries. Not give them automatically, but should make it easy to negotiate them to ones where it would be valuable for country.

  9. They know now no one will vote to them anymore,

    So They are trying to make more money before people kick them ass outside the government in 2027

  10. lol, this is a shit show, first VAT increase and now this ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)

  11. This government keeps showing us they only care about corporations and the wealthy. This is in no way going to help the people who can’t afford food or rent.

    Either

    a) the government doesn’t care or

    b) the government doesn’t understand that

    So we have the option of the government being greedy or incompetent – neither mutually exclusive.

    I’m so tired of this everlasting illusion that conservatives are somehow better at handling money and that they should be in charge.

  12. “Noin 3 300 tienaaville tulossa suurin veroale”. The title is misleading

  13. I think it’s typical of right wing governments globally. Use the excuse of no money to increase taxes that affect lower income earners more, make public sectors worse, give money to the wealthy, cut taxes for the wealthy and when public sectors are so bad they allow a private sector to take it’s place.

  15. With ai replacing jobs I’m sure this is a smart move for some reason I cannot see. With less income taxes collected due to loss of jobs, what better way to plan for the future than to reduce taxes collected from businesses, too. After all, they are only going to be making record profits with the increased efficiency thanks to automation.

  16. What is high income earners in this context? Also, why not make it law that the windfall from the tax deduction has to be spend on the employees not dividends and “reinvestment”.

  17. i think poor people shouldn’t get their aide slashed so some rich asshole can get another handout. how are we as a coutry ever going to raise birth rates like this? we need young people to study so they can pay more tax later. this is so fucking stupid

  18. This was known to happen, when wannabe high-income earners (but not really) voted for these parties in the last election. I’m mostly wondering, why did it take so long!

  19. The corporate tax in Finland is among the lowest in Europe, yet apparently companies cannot survive here from the tax pressure.

    Funny thing is, I’ve already seen this with all the debt fear mongering. I don’t know if these guys are brilliant brainwashers or are so many people in Finland so naive? This government just says something and you see people repeating like idiots. Then they can do whatever they want and everyone just claps.

  21. Well it’s the companies that create jobs so this is good

  22. Biggest winners here are those that earn 8.000.per monnth.

  23. I’m an OK earning entreprenour, and think this is moronic.

    Lowering taxes for the rich in this economy will help with nothing, but cause regular people to get angry. Lowering taxes for companies also only helps the group of people who need help the least.

    So again, this is moronic, even as a right leaning person.

  25. Finlands problem is that our southern brother attracts companies big and small with 0% corporate tax. Even after Finland lowers its tax to 18% it’s still 18% compared to 0%. In Finland companies pay 18% every year out of taxable profit. In Estonia profit can be kept in the company tax free and used for growth and employment. No need to make creative tax deductions like in Finland and they are not even allowed in some cases. Simpler bookkeeping. In Finland on the other hand vemploying people is cheaper in terms of social costs.

    You could also make the point that low income is very lightly taxed in Finland vs Estonia where everyone is paying the same % or almost. Paying more than 50% of your income to taxes is not motivating to anyone.

    This taxation change will not be a dealmaker but it’s in the right direction.

  26. They say that taxes are being cut now so that “Finns would have more to spend on their salaries after taxes and the average consumer would have the courage to spend again”. I still wonder why they are only cutting corporate taxes and taxes on the higher income bracket because it contradicts what the government is talking about.

  27. No one should be surprised. We need an economy that benefits the workers.

  29. Classic libertarian corporativist move, pleasing the capitalists, the 1%, after years of posing as “on the side of the real Finns”. Time to have new elections and send these people home.

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