the Dutch ports will resort against the decision of the EU commission to impose they the payment of the taxes on the societies of capitals



The Dutch ports have announced that they will introduce resorted against the recent decision of the EU commission beginning from to impose to the Dutch harbour authorities the deposit of the taxes on the societies of capitals on January 1°, 2017 ( on 22 January 2016). To appeal the decision of Brussels they will be the Harbour Authorities of Amsterdam, Moederdijk and Rotterdam and the public harbour societies Groeningen Seaports, Port of Den Helder and Zeeland Seaports.

"We - he has specified the financial director of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Paul Smits - are not against the payment of the taxes on the societies of capitals, but this would have to be worth for all the European ports. This - it has emphasized Smits - is for us a principle issue. The ports foreign countries with which we are in competition do not pay the tax on the societies and, moreover, they also are supported in various ways from their governments. Inside of Europe - it has found the leader of the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam - the principle would have to vigere "this that is worth for one is worth also for the other". The payment of the corporation tax will go to the detriment of our investments in the harbour system. The scope cannot be that to increase the treacherous competition".

The six port Dutch authorities have remembered that last year the national legislator has established that the Harbour Authorities do not have to pay some tax on the enterprises because they are not in competition with private subjects, but with ports foreign countries and between same they, and they have emphasized that such decision is assumed in consideration also of the fact that foreign Harbour Authorities, as those of Amburgo and Antwerp, receives the support of respective governments who ripianano their losses or co-finance their investments for the harbour infrastructure realization.

The Harbour Authority of Rotterdam has specified that if were forced to pay the tax on the societies of vital would have to pour, based on the most recent economic results anniversaries, about 60 million euros per year, figure that would be added to the dividend that the Harbour Authority wage to the Municipality of Rotterdam and the State, dividend that is pairs to about 90 million euros and is indexed every year and does not depend on the realized profits. Moreover the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam has remembered that it contributes economically to the costs of public national infrastructures to Rotterdam, as for example will happen if of the work for the realization of a railway riser of four announced kilometers recently that they will involve for the harbour authority an investment of about 100 million euros.