On the other hand, a reduction in VAT on heating oil similar to the reduction in VAT on gas and electricity is not an option, firmly asserts the minister.
“On has already done part of it”responds for his part the Deputy Prime Minister Georges Gilkinet (Ecolo). “We are in a European framework, the choice we have made for the future is to transform VAT, which depends on the price, into excise duties, which dependsent volume. This would make it possible to have a much more stable and dynamic level of taxation.”
However, according to him, the best solution lies in increasing workers’ net incomes. “Po be able to supply oneself with basic necessities, it is on the income that one must continue to work. We did it by raising low pensions and minimum wages. We must continue to do so through taxation. And what we’re proposing for that is a tax credit. Offer more net income to workers, low wages, average wages, so as to provide the means to make the choices thateur are necessary.”
