- Is angry on the rich and forget that there are those who create jobs – Dagens Næringsliv

Formuesskatt

Resultatet av NHOs kompromiss kan bli en «evig pine» for næringslivet, advarer økonomiprofessor.

Publisert: 10.12.2014 — 17:20

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Fra å kreve fjerning av hele skatten, åpner nå direktør Kristin Skogen Lund for et kompromiss der de aller mest velstående blir skattet. Det mener professor og formuesskattmotstander Ole Gjems-Onstad fra Handelshøyskolen BI er en dårlig idé.

- Man kan forstå at en næringslivspolitiker blir kortsiktig pragmatisk når det politiske klimaet er vanskelig. Som akademiker kan man imidlertid tillate seg å tenke mer prinsipielt. Da tror jeg Norge klart er tjent med å ha som perspektiv at formuesskatten må bort for å styrke konkurranseevne, sier Gjems-Onstad.

«En evig pine»

Skogen Lund presenterte sitt forslag på et frokostmøte i regi av tankesmien Civita tirsdag:

– Det er to måter å gjøre det på: Det ene er å skattlegge formuesobjekter som særlig dyre boliger. Det andre er Høyre-løsningen, som er et veldig høyt bunnfradrag, for eksempel 25 millioner kroner – og en redusert sats, til for eksempel 0,5 prosent. Da er det ganske få som betaler, og det er en redusert belastning. Det er ikke perfekt, men mye av skaden på mindre bedrifter lukes da ut, sa hun.

Selv om Gjems-Onstad har forståelse for uttalelsen, advarer han mot at resultatet fort blir «en evig pine» for næringslivet.

- I Norge har dette blitt et omfordelingsspørsmål, noe som gjør debatten helt håpløs. Aksepterer du dette, blir du aldri ferdig med denne skatten, sier Gjems-Onstad.

Verdiskapningen

Selv mener han den omdiskuterte skatten må fjernes av hensyn til verdiskapningen.

- Ser du på det som en næringslivssak, blir debatten en helt annet, sier professoren og fortsetter:

- Det har andre land gjort, og i dag er det bare Frankrike, Sveits og Norge som har skatten. De som har forsøkt seg, kaster skatten bort igjen. Det skyldes ganske enkelt at det blir for enkelt for de velstående å flytte ut. Scheel-utvalget er for formuesskatt, men den generelle utviklingen er helt entydig.

Ifølge Gjems-Onstad glemmer nordmenn at de rike ofte også er dem som får det til i næringslivet.

- Man er sinte på de rike og glemmer at det er de som skaper arbeidsplasser, hevder han.

• Civitas Villeman Vinje utarbeidet i sommer et notat som viser at formuesskatten ikke har en særlig fordelingseffekt, og mener den bør fjernes. l Notatet fikk sterk kritikk av flere forskere. Et samlet forskermiljø mente at formuesskatten både virker omfordelende, og er viktig for at alle skal betale skatt.
• Kunnskapsminister og tidligere Civita-mann Torbjørn Røe Isaksen (H) gikk også ut mot notatet, og mente det var åpenbart at formuesskatten har fordelende effekt. Han vil ikke fjerne formuesskatten uten å finne nye skatter.
• NHO kalte det løftebrudd fra Høyre om formuesskatten ble halvert i statsbudsjettet.
• I statsbudsjett er satsen redusert til 0,85 prosent. Bunnfradraget økte fra en million til 1,2 millioner.
• Da Scheel-utvalget la frem sin rapport, sa finansminister Siv Jensen at hun ikke vil utelukke at fortsatt formuesskatt blir en del av et skatteforlik.

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NHO turns on wealth – Dagens Næringsliv

NHO top Kristin Skogen Lund realize that it may be politically impossible to get rid of all the wealth tax.

Published: 09/12/2014 – 7:40 p.m.

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Tax Debate debate on wealth tax has been high over the past half year. NHO has constantly been hard on that all wealth must away, and demanded in the summer at least a halving of tax already in next year’s budget. Fact was a cut from one to 0.85 percent.

Shortly after the state budget was presented, came tax committee report with proposals that will provide a competitive tax system. In the report, the wealth tax retained.

At a breakfast meeting organized by the think tank Civita opened Tuesday NHO Director Kristin Skogen Lund for a compromise where the most wealthy are taxed.

– There are two ways to do it: one is to tax asset as particularly expensive homes. The second is Right solution, which is a very high basic deductions, such as NOK 25 million – and a reduced rate, for example 0.5 percent. Then it is quite a few who pays, and there is a reduced load. It’s not perfect, but much of the damage to smaller businesses weeded out when, she says.

The mayor rejects criticism from TA management: – We are in dialogue – Asker and Bærum Budstikke

 - It has been our intention all the time to get into a constructive dialogue with the venue owner to maintain the goal of a multi-purpose arena at Fornebu, including activities on artificial turf, says Lisbeth Hammer Krog (H).

 

 She rejects with this criticism was put forward in Budstikka Monday of Diderik B. Schnitler, Chairman of arena owner Kjell Chr. Ulrichsen company Euforum.

 - Schnitler know very well

  – What do you think about that he characterizes municipal political treatment as weak and tedious?

 - Schnitler know very well that there has been a close dialogue between the municipality and venue owner regarding the operation of the TA as multipurpose arena with artificial turf and that I as mayor has been directly involved in this dialogue.

  ALSO READ: Commune probably makes volte face in Telenor Arena battle

 - It has been a process

 Hammer Krog will not anticipate what will be the outcome of the planning committee treatment of TA case (see fact box) 15 January.

  – This case has circulated in three years. Is not that very long?

 - The main thing for us has been to get the grass back to Telenor Arena. It has been a process that has taken its time, and I noted with satisfaction that art rolling grass is now permanently in place at the facility. We have had an ongoing dialogue with the venue owner to put in place as many as possible activities on this grass.

 Several items not yet in place

  – Why have Euforum to wait for completion has since April?

 - The issue is not just about fulfilling regulatory provisions. There have also been several other issues related to some elements of the arena that has not been in place. These conditions should be corrected within a few weeks.

  ALSO READ: No clarification in the battle for Telenor Arena before next year

 Arena Owner must follow loyally up

  – Are you surprised about-face as municipal legal counsel has done in this case?

 - Law firm Hjorth has always been concerned about the artificial pitch has been a part of TA. They believed earlier that the hiring was not good enough, and they are still adamant that arena owner must follow up regulatory provisions loyally, when it comes to the practical operation of the plant.

  – What do you mean?

 - That means Euforum through its operating arrangements and cost allocation does not seek to prevent the arena will be used for activities on artificial turf.

  – Are you tired of this case?

 - I am concerned that all parties shall comply with regulatory provisions, whether in a small or large business.

Debate on Art Building and quay – Strilen

– The municipality has urovekkjande high long-term debt set in relation to gross income.

The printable Higher his group leader Ernst Stellberg EiT note to the alderman and the others group owner. The inputs Going to the presidency’s budget round Wednesday before the budget shall adopt throw in council per week after.

To improved the debt situation, believes that Higher municipality should get Seljuk the old municipality building, no art house. Histogram, the party will venta to bygga new quay in Åråsvågen.

Among anna Center can supported these checkpoints from Conservative Party, while the Labor synest it is unwise to venta construction of jetty in Åråsvågen. Left despair that of conditions here siege municipality building does not have wart clarified.

– Heller maintenance

Reidar Øknes (Q) is also considering venta construction of jetty in Åråsvågen so Higher want. Councillor has to set up a half million dollars in municipal contributions to ein such quay.

– Eg believes me nor should Maintained dei Kaian me have, and that me should get a more unite plan for development of both sides of Åråsvågen before municipality builds quay. Have me more to put into the budget, it should go to upgrading the calender kindergarten, general maintenance of schools and to styrka subsidies to agriculture, victory Øksnes.

He will coma with their specific comments only directly in the Presidency’s meeting on Wednesday tomorrow.

-Uklokt to stryka

– To stryka dock in Åråsvågen from investment list tykkjer I is unwise. The municipality has placed great emphasis on the parts of the coastal village shall vera publicly available, and the pier is an annexe of this joint development. Me has received 370,000 kroner from the County Governor to the pier as part of downtown development project ours. This is pengar me must repay if me not invest in the dock, påpeikar Mayor Per Leroy (Ap).

Here Leroy support from Deputy Mayor Helge Dyrkolbotn and KrF.

– That there is seen by 500,000 as a construction dock in coastal village looks KrF as sensible and straight. We know that it’s likely most during 2015 core application for a construction on the construction of the pier. Therefore host it wrong for KrF taking this sum out of the budget. Here host nothing paid out before the decision of the municipal council is made and it must be done on an application for a construction, numerous Dyrkolbotn.

He refers to the pier in the seaside village is a public accessible area of ​​an important part of the municipal center that is a good and exciting development.

– Plant contributions have Vore done in many places in the municipality where it is natural. In addition, the municipality ein development agreement with coastal village AS to take account of, victory Dyrkolbotn.

When it comes to new quay in Åråsvågen, calculates Liv Ulvøy that Left can supported Conservative Party in venta with it.

Unsure husbandry

On operation points out that Higher Austrheim seem to get a complete deficit this year, maybe 2-4 millions. In any case, parts of it must be covered in next year’s budget.

Higher want and have on the table choir can verta reduction offered its inhabitants. It hosts due coveted that the various departments have looked up expenses close to 17 millions over the alderman has found space for in their submissions.

For instance, the Health, Nordli mountains, Arbeidssenter and Heim Tenester reduced by 6.5 millions in relation department their Presteigne want it to be. Higher’m afraid it may give a too scarce frame. The reason is that the department gives statutory services that will be incurred anyway.

Elles meiner Higher budget from the alderman should Vore setup more understandable both for people selected and ordinary inhabitants.

Will go through husbandry

Until Monday had Mayor Per Leroy (Ap) only personnel have a written comments only, from Higher.

– My comments only is that me establishes EiT or two mellombelse selection to scrutinize the running of the municipality and triangulate concrete improvement area that will give lasting savings, operating, write Leroy in an e-mail to Strilen.

will clarify Art house

Life Ulvøy (V) is skeptical Selja Art house but she admits that the idea is tempting duck.

– Even I have some in several years clamoring ei demolition of fallow built at the old municipality building. In June 2005, the municipal council that the old bank attmed should sallow. The resolution said, and that 300,000 of sals amount would go to wenn fallow built, but it is not performed even if the bank building lasted Seljuk, påpeikar Ulvøy.

Ho shows further that the artist today user remainder of the old municipality building free . It believes ho host expensive for the municipality in the long run.

– Political waiting eg on a case from the administration that the users host imposed a certain Husla. Berre Straum expenditure Going into siege 80,000 per year. There is much for ein municipality like ours. Preferably, the housing must out or municipality’s budget. A way to make it is that huste host transferred to a staple, victory Ulvøy.

Per Leroy will consider how husbandry of Art house will be organized after the youth club, moving into next year.

Dismissing not saddle

KrF rejects not ward off Art house, but set certain conditions.

– Kunstnermiljøer at Art House Austrheim administered municipality much creativity and create joy and Austrheim KrF look at the work that host drive there as an important environmental factor, ein impressive growth to the business always the most important and ein superbly omdømebyggjar in our municipality, Helge Dyrkolbotn.

He points out that in 2014-2025 Strategic business is Art house Austrheim with which Eige point during program / project. There goes it emerged that the municipality will contribute to further development of the Art house Austrheim. It makes ein not by willow house on the opne Marknaden, meiner KrF.

– Before an eventually saddle of the house it is important that you have to have ein good process on how this should be done in consultation with those who Today New Year house. How KrF see it would best Vore about dei 9 Kunstnarar who held to where fekk over the house so that the superb art scene’re still may continue at, leva and blossom, victory Dyrkolbotn.

– Sell if someone will buy

Rådmannen their proposals add up to investments in 2015 at just over 18 million. It will have Higher reduced to 15 millions, for reducing the loan.

– Ps of the old municipality building, no art house, loaded korta poured ago me-in the new. Politically me also pray ward off other municipal buildings, for example Kanserdalen school, win presidency member Reidar Øksnes in Sp.

He says Sp therefore can supported on Higher saddle of Art house if someone will buy it. But he is not involved in øyremerkja savings when at saddled to specific purposes, such Higher want. Higher want savings in operating expenses after EiT saddle of Art house will coma cultural sector as a whole.

Sponsoring SHP with 215 million a year – Bergens Tidende

The proposal being promoted today, but will not come into force until 1 January 2016. The government is dependent on support from KrF or Left in Parliament, and the extension of the certificate scheme must also be negotiated with Sweden.

Power price increases

Green certificates provide small hydro plants 15 cents extra per kilowatt hour, which will provide an annual cost of around 215 million. According Småkraft Association means that households with a consumption of 20,000 kilowatt hours per year, will receive an increase in the electricity bill of 50 million a year.

– Many SHP owned by local small landowners. They were betrayed by the coalition government which promised that they would join the scheme. But they met never. The result is that many are in a deeply distressed situation, says parliament Oskar Grimstad (FRP).

Personal tragedies

– They are in danger of having to go from farm and land. There are several personal tragedies as a result of this the violation, he said.

– But now rectified this. For us it is also a moral question. We meet what is promised and what we went in the previous parliamentary term, says Conservative Bjørn Lødemel.

– I think many small power plants can now saved and that they can be refinanced, he said.

Got omitted

The two energy politicians from coalition parties say that the owners of small hydro plants will be able to retrieve from 500,000 to 800,000 per year from the green certificate scheme.

Power plants that were built in the years 2004 to 2009 were excluded from the scheme when it was adopted. There are plants with a power output of between 1 and 10 MW.

When Småkraft Association made up status of the landowner owned power plants last year, they found that 15 were technically bankrupt, 24 with deficit and 31 did not take out dividends or paid wages to involved.

Sold lifework

“With the low power prices situation becomes worse month by month, and many count the buttons how long they dare to continue,” wrote Association in a memorandum in November this year.

It says that many small power plants is sold for economic reasons:

“Last out was Sværen Kraft in Balestrand, where landowners recently had to throw in towel and sell lifework. ” Buyer was S.Fj. energy.

Småkraft Association also shows that German stakeholders bought a package of 33 small hydropower plants in 2013.

50,000 vacant operating hours can cut queue – Future in North

NHO Service has undertaken an analysis of how availability in private hospitals can be used to reduce queues for patients waiting to get executed operations.

– To utilize spare capacity at private hospitals could save society lot of money each year. People, who could have had a job, is not it, and people are suffering needlessly, says Petter Furulund, Man. Dir. NHO Service

The organization has conducted interviews with the biggest private hospitals and collected data via websites, mail and telephones to the other to calculate availability.

The excess capacity in private hospitals equals 50,000 operating hours. years.

Large capacity

There are currently 10 private hospitals that have contracts for the delivery of various operations to Health Authorities.

These have a capacity of at least 134,000 hours on their operating theaters annually of which approximately 37 percent are unutilized.

This corresponds to approximately 50,000 vacant hours annually.

In addition, the available capacity in private hospitals that have approval / license but not public contracts which have not been taken into account in the note. Their capacity will be added.

Billions in savings

Of the approximately 240,000 who are sykehuskø, it is estimated that in excess of 30,000 is long-term sick of working age.

NHO Service have looked at what it would mean to reduce waiting time from an average of 10 weeks to 2 weeks as the private players is on.

Calculations indicate an economic savings of over 2 billion. kr .

These funds occurs through getting the percentage of the queue that receives sick pay (estimated to be approximately 13 percent of the pending) faster return to work.

Because the employer pays the first 16 days with sick pay is the public saving approximately 1.5 billion. If one had managed to reduce waiting times by 8 weeks.

The entire assay can read here .

Here is KGB agent who let sexfella for the Norwegian top diplomat – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Having been on a circus performance on 9 January 1959, the 39-year-old Norwegian diplomat invited by two young Russians to an apartment in Moscow, where they drank liquor.

KGB colonel Nikolaj Krymovs team, three men besides himself – had rigged up outside. Entice Duen gave them a signal and KGB team stormed into the room where they found the Norwegian diplomat naked.

“Two men in dark coats and hats stood in the doorway, lightning blazed and photography device click before someone got to sigh, “ explained later Norwegian diplomat in an interrogation with PST.

Got KGB ultimatum

The Norwegian diplomat got two choices. One choice was that the images would be handed the Foreign Ministry. The second choice was that he wrote this text in an interrogation document:

“I will in my ability at my side helping KGB with information that it needs.”

The diplomat even wrote this text and signed. Krymov he gave respite to the day after accepting the offer. They watched him throughout the night and saw the despairing “Oscar” go sleepless around in his apartment. KGB had given him the code name “Oscar”.

Code Name “Oscar”

Dagbladet since summer written about Mitrokhin Archive. Archives naming a number of Norwegian toppdiplomater as KGB agents, among other things a Norwegian diplomat have been squeezed because of their homosexual orientation. He should have given at least a thousand Nato and UD documents 70s KGB, according to the archive.

«Oscar» is the same diplomat who was photographed in Moscow in 1959. Dagbladet has repeatedly talked diploma grenade family, they do not want to comment this case.

Last week Dagbladet got access to nearly five hundred pages of investigative material from PST applicable diplomat, and a number of other diplomats who were monitoring the police spotlight. In several interviews with monitoring police told the diplomat about how he was pressured by the KGB. In 1971 he admitted having given UD documents to the KGB, but he claimed that there was talk of unclassified documents.

In an interview with documentary director and writer Ola Flyum in May 1993, told the now deceased Nikolaj Krymov about his role in the “Oscar” -saken. Krymov was chief of Scandinavian department in other main directorate. Before he became leader, he had sole responsibility for monitoring the Norwegian Embassy.

Haavik heir

Krymov had long good control of the embassy as their Norwegian great spy Gunvor Galtung Haavik reported regularly on what was happening. When she went from Moscow in 1956, he wanted a new source in the Norwegian embassy.

Two people pointed out: The new embassy secretary Ingeborg Lygren – who took over after Powys – and the new Counsellor “Oscar.” They arrived Moscow respectively in 1956 and 1957.

In 1957 woke KGB interest in the Norwegian Embassy in earnest. Since all US citizens were under heavy surveillance, needed help from the CIA collaborative services. The Norwegian intelligence chief Vilhelm Evang said yes to such cooperation. “Oscar” was not part of this, but two of his colleagues were CIA couriers – including embassy secretary Ingeborg Lygren.

mapped diplomat

Krymov initiated an extensive survey of the “Oscar”. He was suave and gregarious, played piano and was very powerful language. He spoke several European languages ​​- including Russian. However, what he did interesting for the KGB, his interest for Russian men. 50s there were special clubs in Moscow where these frequented. “Oscar” was careless and got a close relationship with a gay Russian.

Nikolai Krymov got picked Russian for questioning and forced him to be decoy for the KGB. The day after the heavily-pressed diplomat to the Embassy.

According Krymov let diplomat all the cards on the table to the ambassador and was immediately sent back to Norway. Nikolaj Krymov la «Oscar» on ice.

In 1967 joined Krymov as head of the KGB’s Scandinavian department in contra espionage. He never got to know about “the Oscar-case” was reactivated:

– Are the pictures of the “Oscar” is still in the KGB archives ?, asked Flyum in 1993.

– They we never be destroyed. No one will see them. Only when someone high up will see them, they can be taken forward, said Nikolai Krymov and smiled.

– Should have given a thousand documents

KGB residenturaen in Oslo continued to study diplomat in Norway. He worked for a period as 2nd Secretary of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Later he got a job as charge d’affaires in Athens. In 1967 socket restored to what is called “noncommittal” basis, ie in informal forms. The Norwegian diplomat was extremely critical of the military dictatorship in Greece and this was used by the KGB to establish a confidential contact with him.

In Mitrokhin Archive says: “NN (diplomat) agreed Having confidential contact and as a result of this he handed over a number of secret documents that concerned Greek conditions. In return he received valuable gifts, especially two icons. “

In 1971, the diplomat included in KGB web as ” document agent “ , says the PST document. He often had meetings with the Russian Counsellor Vasily Andreevitsj Vorobiev, the same man who was guiding officer Douglas Britten, a boss technician at RAF (British Air Force) who was sentenced to 21 years in prison for espionage for the Soviet in 1968.

In Mitrokhin documents reads: “More than 1,000 pages of documents related to NATO and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was received from him in exchange for material things. He gave material that was related to the NATO countries’ participation in the NATO Council manner in Brussels in December 1970 and in Lisbon in June 1971, as well as conditions that concerned the relationship between the United States and Greece. “

In PST assessment stated that “Oscar” handed over documents under great pressure and after much hesitation and reluctance. He resisted being transferred as a secret contact and tried to legalize meetings as regular diplomatic contacts.

acknowledged KGB contact

In an interrogation document dated 23 August 1971 recognizing the diplomat that he met the Russian Counsellor Vasily Andreevitsj Vorobiev from time to time. It could be about two to three months and down to a few weeks between each time they met. Most often went hand in that they were out to lunch together.

In questioning the document reads: “The conversation with the Russians revolved essentially on the Greek regime, the situation in Cyprus (…) and if economic developments in Greece. In connection with these discussions showed testified Vorobiev quarterly reports that the economic department of the US Embassy compiled over the status of balance of payments (…) The reports were unclassified. In two to three cases got Vorobiev keep these reports. “

In 1971, the diplomat surprised by Greek police when he was on a visit to a bathroom with a young man in Athens . That led to a Greek diplomat visited Undersecretary Thorvald Stoltenberg in Oslo on July 26, 1971. The Greek diplomat began the meeting by saying that he came in a very sad case. I note from the meeting with Stoltenberg says: “The action violates the Greek legislation and the government had therefore declared the Norwegian who persona non grata.”.

The diplomat had to return to Oslo where he was functioning NK (second in command) at the Administration Department of the Foreign Ministry. In 1972 had KGB resident clock in Oslo a secret meeting with him in the city, but several attempts to get him at such meetings did not succeed. He refused to engage in secret collaboration in Norway. That led to the KGB decided to wait until another opportunity arose.

The last meeting

In April 1977 he was appointed ambassador to India. Attempts by the KGB to re-establish contact agent failed. In 1980, the KGB officer, who had been in contact with the Norwegian diplomat in Oslo, posted in India.

In Mitrokhin documents reads: “They met twice during March in diplomatmottakelser but NN (diplomat) yielded not on attempts to get to a meeting in the city from the KGB officer. NN (diplomat) had expressed that if such a meeting took place, he was obliged to report it to their superiors and that he had plans to incur some risk, especially since the retirement age approached. He assured KGB officer that he had not told anyone about the special relationship he had with the Soviet Union and that he intended to report on the recent inquiry if they let him alone. Since NN (diplomat) had given such clear signals, decided the leaders of the KGB’s first main directorate that it should not be made several attempts to re-establish contact. “