By Months: Rene Kokk
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
7 Speeches
The speaker emphasizes the importance of fiscal discipline and the quality of budget planning, sharply criticizing the ministries for their large carry-over amounts (2.27 billion euros). He/She views these sums as evidence of poor budgeting skills and demands improved forecasting for future years.
09.2025
9 Speeches
His economic views focus on opposing the transfer of costs to citizens through the centralization of state services, as this creates additional expenses in the form of having to drive further away. He emphasizes the importance of using cash for security and citizen convenience, and opposes making bank card payments mandatory for state services.
06.2025
10 Speeches
Strongly supports boosting economic efficiency by changing regulations to allow larger truck combinations in the logistics, agriculture, and forestry sectors. It is critical of the government’s plans to bring large amounts of foreign labor into Estonia, arguing that Estonia can manage on its own by implementing smart solutions.
05.2025
55 Speeches
The economic views clearly favor tax cuts, with the goal of improving business competitiveness and alleviating the cost of living. They consider tax hikes to be unfair and conducive to the shadow economy, citing the import of construction materials from Lithuania and Poland as an example. The necessity of supporting innovation and automation, rather than importing cheap labor, is emphasized, and the government's large expenditures on political projects (Rail Baltic, wind energy) are criticized.
04.2025
44 Speeches
Economic perspectives are fiercely anti-tax, especially concerning the car tax, which is viewed as hindering both entrepreneurship and the wider economy. Emphasis is placed on the need for a more respectful attitude toward entrepreneurs who contribute funds to the state budget. Criticism is leveled at the mismanagement of the government's fiscal policy, citing examples such as a billion euros that remained unspent and the subsidizing of used electric vehicles, which primarily favors the wealthier segments of society.
03.2025
17 Speeches
The speaker strongly advocates for cutting excise duties and VAT on fuel to alleviate the negative impact of inflation and rising taxes on citizens’ financial well-being. It is emphasized that the state, through its actions (specifically, the abolition of tax benefits), has reduced the public's ability to cope, and there is a demand for increased funding for local municipalities.
02.2025
26 Speeches
Highly critical of new taxes (the motor vehicle tax), particularly when they are unjust and confusing, treating similar cars differently. Opposes state subsidies that are targeted at wealthier individuals (such as grants for used electric cars). Stresses the necessity of protecting entrepreneurship and private property (referencing the Hunting Law) and criticizes energy policy that fails to attract new businesses to Estonia.
01.2025
18 Speeches
Strongly supports tax cuts, particularly reducing the VAT on foodstuffs to 5% to alleviate the effects of inflation and bolster domestic production. It opposes new taxes (such as the car tax) and criticizes the government's budget management, demanding fiscal discipline and transparency in the governance of state-owned enterprises. It also criticizes the government's tendency to support the wealthy (e.g., electric vehicle subsidies) at the expense of the less affluent.
12.2024
15 Speeches
The economic stance is firmly against tax increases (excise duties, car tax, VAT), viewing them as harmful to Estonian people and enterprise. They criticize policies that drive trade (alcohol) out of Estonia and into Latvia, and they oppose unreasonable cost-based levies (like the 800 euros for removing an old vehicle from the register).
11.2024
18 Speeches
Strong opposition to new taxes, especially the car tax, which is seen as causing impoverishment and disproportionately hitting large families. It criticizes state spending that subsidizes profitable sectors (wind energy) while crucial social and educational institutions remain unfunded. The overall stance is fiscally cautious, but it emphasizes the importance of regional and social expenditures.
10.2024
24 Speeches
Economic views are strongly opposed to tax increases, especially excise duties, as these drive consumption across the border and consequently reduce tax revenue. Emphasis is placed on the vital circulation of the economy and infrastructure, and the government is criticized for focusing on reducing consumption rather than fostering growth. The trend of vehicle aging is linked to a negative impact on road safety and the introduction of a car tax.
09.2024
14 Speeches
He/She advocates for economic nationalism and domestic production, stressing the need to launch ammunition manufacturing in Estonia to prevent billions of euros from leaving the economy. He/She supports the interests of farmers, criticizing the government's austerity policy regarding the termination of compensation for goose damage. Furthermore, he/she warns against foreign money that distorts the land market, and advises landowners to rent rather than sell when dealing with wind parks.
07.2024
11 Speeches
The speaker is vehemently opposed to tax hikes, arguing they are detrimental to the economy and warning that they will drive businesses out of Estonia. The necessity of restoring fiscal discipline and budget transparency is stressed before any new taxes are implemented. Furthermore, concern is voiced over the reduction in cash handling, predicting a subsequent rise in cash transactions as a result of tax optimization efforts.
06.2024
9 Speeches
The speaker is strongly opposed to new taxes, particularly the car tax, which they view as a wealth tax that harms people in rural areas. To improve the budgetary situation, they propose halting the construction of Rail Baltic (saving over 300 million), abolishing the tax hump (saving 500 million), and introducing a bank tax to channel extraordinary bank profits into the state budget. Criticism is also leveled at the loss of a 700 million euro investment to Latvia.
05.2024
11 Speeches
Economic views are focused on supporting the taxation of extraordinary bank profits (citing the impact of Euribor) and opposing taxes designed to meet budgetary requirements. The government's rationale for not implementing a bank tax (namely, maintaining capital availability for businesses) is criticized. Furthermore, there is opposition to forcing local governments to raise the land tax due to insufficient state funding.
04.2024
14 Speeches
The economic views strongly oppose tax increases, arguing that they damage competitiveness, exacerbate inflation, and drive up the cost of living. The speaker supports increasing business efficiency (for example, by allowing longer road trains) and demands an audit of state budget expenditures—specifically the funding of NGOs—in order to find alternatives to raising taxes. They emphasize the necessity of improving the transport sector's competitiveness.
03.2024
18 Speeches
Economic policies are aimed at alleviating the tax burden and improving the financial well-being of the population. There is support for lowering the VAT on foodstuffs to assist families facing economic hardship, alongside criticism of new taxes (such as the car tax and the sugar tax) and the taxation of pensioners. In the energy sector, nuclear power is supported, but the necessity of maintaining oil shale reserves for energy production is stressed.
02.2024
15 Speeches
Economic policies focus on protecting domestic entrepreneurship and production, and they are strongly opposed to the car tax, arguing that it harms businesses and low-income individuals. They support taxing banks' extraordinary profits (a bank tax) with the goal of improving capital availability, especially in the agricultural sector. The government is criticized for suppressing domestic savings and loan associations while allowing foreign banks to reap massive profits.
01.2024
26 Speeches
The speaker is a strong advocate for tax reductions, having introduced bills aimed at lowering personal income tax (currently 18.4%) and corporate income tax to provide support to individuals and businesses facing inflationary pressures. He opposes increases to the VAT (including those affecting the media/press) and excise duty hikes (specifically on oil shale heating oil). Furthermore, he criticizes the proposed vehicle tax, predicting that it will negatively affect road safety.