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While several of the government’s supporting parties are ready to get kicked bankbosser out of the lucrative division of research, which provides a contribution rate of 32,84 percent, comes general, rasmussen, Morten Bødskov (S) business to the rescue.
‘the Purpose (of the scheme, red.) after all, to help companies and research organisations to attract highly skilled labor, that otherwise would be difficult to get to Denmark. It will say that it is to a large extent are persons, who without the scheme would not work and be taxed in Denmark.
‘Therefore, Denmark does not necessarily mean missing out on huge tax revenues, and the government has no plans to change the system’, writes the minister in an email.
the research scheme includes researchers and key employees who are recruited abroad and are employed in a Danish company or a research institution.
They only need to pay 32,84 percent in taxes, but then there is also is not possible to get the deduction.
The latest figures from 2018 shows that last year, 7153 persons associated with the scheme. In 2008, the figure had 3735, which corresponds to an increase of 92 percent.
Scientists are people who perform research and who have a research training on the minimum ph.d. level. Key employees are employees who receive a monthly salary of at least 65.100 kr. For them, there are no training requirements.
the Employee may not, within the last ten years prior to the engagement have been employed in Denmark.
the Employee must not within the last five years prior to the employment have had a direct or indirect part in the management of the company of which he is recruited.
You can be on the scheme in seven years.
Source: Tax
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the Reaction from Morten Bødskov to come, according to Ekstra Bladet on Tuesday could tell, four out of danske bank’s seven directors with milliongager have changed the top-bracket tax with a contribution rate of 32,84 percent in taxes, including social security contributions, because they are employed on the research scheme.
on Wednesday could the minister should so read that in storbanken Nordea is 255 employees, including a director at the low tax rate. The stories got the government’s supporting parties up in the red field.
– It sounds completely crazy (to four of Danske Bank’s directors are on the scheme, red). You should not be rewarded for earning an absurd amount of money, said Kathrine Olldag, skatteordfører for The Radicals, and told the party ready to vote for changes of the scheme.
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– It can’t be true, that we are all together in Denmark to pay for any of the quotes are so sweet to come work for the many millions per year. They must like all others who serve an absurd amount of money in Denmark, pay their tax, she said on.
the SF has proposed to introduce a limit of one million dollars, so the low tax rate on 32,84 percent only applies up to a million dollars, while everything above is taxed normally. Enhedslisten wants the scheme abolished.
An access to documents from the tax administration shows that the number of staff in the research scheme almost doubled from 2008 to 2018, which, according to the agency was 7153 employees, who got the low tax rate on 32,84 percent.
the Increase in corporate use of the scheme, according to the minister ‘very natural’, but he is still open to discuss the scheme with The Radical.
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‘If The Radicals come to the government with a desire to discuss the criteria for the scheme, so we are obviously taking the discussions. But I would like to stress that it is important that we in Denmark can attract foreign labor, because it is necessary to ensure growth and create new jobs, ” answers Morten Bødskov, in an email.
But it will probably not happen, even though Kathrine Olldag expressed it. In an interview with the stock Exchange on Thursday she makes something of a u-turn.
– Sofie (Carsten Nielsen, political rapporteur for The Radical, ed.) has little asked me to draw in the country. So what I need to do, says Kathrine Olldag to the newspaper.
– We go the check of the regime, so our position is, apparently, just as Bødskov, to the here system, it exists, and so it is, and so it must be so.
the ministry of Taxation has to Ekstra Bladet estimated that there would be at 800 million extra in the treasury, if all of the people on the scheme had paid full tax.
However, the ministry subject to a number of them that are on the research scheme, perhaps, would not be in Denmark, if the scheme did not exist.
