Single people should have tax relief

Nettavisen ^ | September 1. | Carin Pettersson

[Eurotwit]

LABOUR PARTY: "Single people should have tax relief"

According to women in the Norwegian Labour party, it is too expensive to live alone in Norway, so they want a tax relief for one-person households.

“We think it’s important to focus on this group. Many have a hard time financially, living alone. I think it’s wrong that people over the age of 30 have to have roommates in order to live in the large cities,” says Karita Bekkemellem Orheim to the Norwegian paper Dagbladet. She is the head of the Labour party’s women organization.

740,000 people live alone in Norway today. One-person households are over represented in low income groups, according to numbers from Statistisk sentralbyrå, an agency which conducts surveys.

Bekkemellem Orheim claims a tax relief would be the easiest way to financially assist people living alone.

“This is one of the things which is easiest to put into life. An action like this also costs, but I think that it's absolutely worth it to give them their own tax bracket or deduction. This is something we want to focus on,” says Bekkemellem Orheim, but she underlines that this must take place within today’s total tax scope.

The tax relief suggestion is one of the proposals from “the single group” within the Labour party’s women’s organization.

The organization also suggests that commerce and service sectors should be encouraged to offer their services directed to one-person households, and that local governments adopt a charge system where people pay according to consumption. Furthermore, they suggest that Husbanken should adopt a more flexible system for financial housing grants.

[Eurotwit]

Well, labour is proposing a tax-cut :-)

[Koblenz]

Maybe they should lower taxes by taking away subsidies like the payments made if you have kids. And then start eliminating most other subsidies as well, and go to a flat tax.

[Cronos]

This is good, Norwey has one of the lowest birthrates and a very small population. Soon, there will be no more Norsemen and then the US could have bases in Scandenavia, Norway for the 52nd state (after the UK and Australia) ;-P

[Eurotwit]

Then again, the Norwegian birth rate has held up fairly well compared to many other European nations, probably in part due to the available incentives.....

In general I don't like government meddling to much, but if the government is going to get involved., supporting family values and childres is one of the better areas.

[mtbopfuyn]

Next, those with 6 toes on their left foot will want a tax break.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"According to women in the Norwegian Labour party, it is too expensive to live alone in Norway, so they want a tax relief..."

Nonsense.

The progressive tax structure is the only way for all of you single users of costly infrastructure to pay 'YOUR FAIR SHARE.' The fact that you work the same hours at the same jobs as your married/partnered/shacked-up/cohabiting/nipple-ring-linked co-workers is irrelevant. You should be proud to shoulder a greater portion of your labor for the cause. Besides, you don't really need that extra money anyway, and the benevolent state will find much better uses for it.

Please sit down and shut up.

[Eurotwit]

Probably many of the 6-toed individuals are single, thus they would be doubly rewarded.... ;-)

[anncoulteriscool]

....and dates should be tax-deductable. LOL!