286 Dutch technology entrepreneurs asked Minister Adriaansens (Economic Affairs and Climate) and Minister of Foreign Affairs Van Rij (Finance) to stimulate prerequisites for employee participation and reinvest earnings in new companies, despite the fall of the cabinet. In this way, the government’s ambition of a ‘pay it forward’ culture must be achieved.
Before its fall, the government stated its ambition to create a better business environment for fast-growing companies that use innovation in response to the great social transitions of our time. In their open letter, the tech entrepreneurs, supported by 42 other organizations such as investors, interest groups and business builders, called on ministers to take the next step in encouraging employee participation and enabling tech employers to pay their employees’ salaries. Like in England and Sweden.
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“Don’t let next year be a wasted year”
Additionally, the founders called for ensuring that employees and investors in startups, large-scale companies and mature unlisted companies can pay their taxes when the shares are liquid, through capital gains tax. This can be seen in the discussion regarding the revision of box 3.
‘We write this letter to you as entrepreneurs ranging from startups, scale-ups, and adults after the fall of government’, as stated in the open letter. ‘In recent years you have campaigned for a better business environment for fast-growing companies. Through this letter we appeal to both parties not to let next year be a year in vain and to jointly take the necessary steps to strengthen the business climate mentioned above.’
Signatories also include well-known companies such as Picnic, MessageBird, Bunq, Mollie, Catawiki and Techleap.
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