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Published: Sunday, February 16, 2003
Bylined to: Henk Ruyssenaars
If only those and the other great crooks would pay taxes Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:09:20 +0100 Dear Editor: Att. : David Coleman. Good story ! If only those and the other great crooks (SHELL, Philips, Unilever, Akzo etc.) would pay taxes in Holland! Estimating their incomes means that the rest of us do not need to pay any taxes anymore... Speaking to Prof. Jan Tinbergen when he received the "Small Nobel Price" for economy in Stockholm, he explained that nobody in the Netherlands would need to pay more than 17 % (seventeen percent) in taxes if the multi-nationals based in the Netherlands could be forced to pay taxes too. But they have offices in places like Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and all the other tax havens, so the net taxable profits in general evaporate in the hot island air... Now the average citizen in Holland pays the second highest taxes in the world without getting very much in return, but Sweden is still first. Thanks for the info. best regards,
From: Henk Ruyssenaars fpf@chello.nl
To: Editor@VHeadline.com
Subject: Att. : David Coleman.Good story!
Henk Ruyssenaars. Editor
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl