Belgium 2012 budget - reduction of tax is over

[owen]

rant.

I have just read on the lesoir website that the Belgian government will no longer help the citizen with regard to insulation aid and thermal audit for the year 2012.

source: lesoir newspaper
ref
http://archives.lesoir.be/%AB-un-gouver ... 7029&nav=1

Another thunderclap this morning, after the abolition of the premium on the premium for clean cars. Jean Marc Nollet denounced the total elimination of federal budgets for energy savings. Budget 2012 measures would hide other surprises. Did the negotiators hide things from us?

The communication for this weekend was intended to reassure the markets. When you scratch and analyze the budget agreement, you realize that there are a lot of hidden measures, including the tax assistance measure for home insulation. These tax assistance measures for insulation appeared in 1999. They encouraged citizens to behave in a virtuous way towards the environment. This type of measure is gradually disappearing.

Pass the hatch energy audits, aids for the installation of solar water heaters. We leave 650 million euros aside that could have equipped 400 houses and create 000 jobs are being sidelined.

What impact on the citizen?

This is a question to ask the negotiators and the future finance minister. I want the aid system that exists to be maintained, I am afraid that in 2012, the aid will be withdrawn. These are aids that are full of energy and economic sense. It will affect all families.

So if you want to do an audit in 2012. No way to put it as a tax deduction.

How do you want to reduce our carbon footprint and our dependence on oil if we no longer motivate the citizen?

[elephant]

Your subject duplicates the subject:

https://www.econologie.com/forums/belgique-b ... 11309.html

but already launched.

I suggest you copy your intervention and possibly Christophe to lock it.

[Christophe]

I am not sure that the motivation by the tax reductions is the best way towards a more econological society ...

Why? I repeat (quickly because it was developed on forums, here for example: https://www.econologie.com/forums/arnaques-e ... t5520.html ) once again:

a) Aid keeps prices up!

b) Equipment that performs economically but is not helped will be abandoned at the cost of another that is less efficient but more helped! Ex. Insulation for the benefit of solar PV ...

a) + b) = c) Aid is a means of controlling the market; as lobbyists of all kinds ...

The proof in figures and comparative calculation for Wallonia: VS solar photovoltaic VS solar thermal insulation

Another similar topic was made this morning: https://www.econologie.com/forums/belgique-b ... 11309.html we continue down please.