Prime Minister Juri Ratas said no new taxes would be implemented next year, but added that he would like to increase the quota of workforce coming from outside the European Union.
“I do not think it right to make new decisions concerning the tax policy a year before the end of this composition of the parliament. No new taxes will be introduced to the Estonian market next year,” the prime minister said.
Ratas said that the aim of the tax amendments that were passed this year and would enter into force next year was greater solidarity. He admitted that it could be said that the new system would take over principal things from the Center Party’s longstanding progressive tax promise.
Ratas said that several industries had said that Estonia required more workforce from outside the European Union and added that as prime minister he was prepared to support this. (ERR/Business World Magazine)