By Months: Vadim Belobrovtsev
Total Months: 11
Fully Profiled: 11
12.2024
34 Speeches
Strongly opposed to tax increases, particularly regarding fuel excise duty, VAT, and the car tax, as these severely impact less financially secure residents. It advocates for implementing a bank tax (similar to those in Lithuania and Latvia) to channel banks' excessive profits toward funding national defense, rather than burdening private individuals with a security tax. It criticizes the government's budget management and the loose spending of money within ministries.
11.2024
32 Speeches
The speaker is strongly opposed to the government’s tax policy (raising taxes and excise duties), arguing that it will deepen the economic downturn, which is already the worst in Europe in Estonia. He criticizes the use of security tax revenue to plug budget holes instead of allocating it specifically, as intended, for strengthening security. He advocates for social and regional investment and raising public sector wages in light of inflation.
10.2024
26 Speeches
Strongly opposes tax increases and hikes in service fees (such as specialist doctor visit fees), emphasizing that these measures worsen the lives of residents. It calls for market intervention to protect consumers (regarding internet prices) and supports transparent, cost-based budgeting, while criticizing the government's activity-based budgeting model. Furthermore, it questions the expediency and transparency of state expenditures.
09.2024
41 Speeches
Strongly supports increasing social spending and state intervention in the economy (e.g., in the internet services market). As sources for covering the budget, it advocates for implementing a bank tax and optimizing the state apparatus, while simultaneously opposing tax hikes that affect the less affluent (such as the car tax) and the postponement of abolishing the tax hump. It considers the addition of public holidays and wage increases beneficial to the economy in the long term.
07.2024
21 Speeches
Economic perspectives are strongly opposed to tax hikes, particularly the proposed car tax, given that the economy is contracting for the third consecutive year and inflation remains high. Criticism is directed at the government's approach to the state budget, which involves preemptively spending anticipated revenue streams (such as the car tax) before they have even been legally implemented. Furthermore, the inconsistency between proposed public sector austerity measures and the simultaneous posting of new job advertisements is also criticized.
06.2024
28 Speeches
Vigorous opposition to new taxes and tax increases (income tax, VAT, excise duties, car tax) during an economic downturn. It argues that the sole purpose of the tax increases is plugging budget holes, not cost-basis justification or environmental sustainability. It defends vulnerable groups (pensioners, large families) from the tax burden.
05.2024
44 Speeches
Economic views are extremely critical of the government's fiscal policy, emphasizing Estonia's recession and high inflation, which is exceptional in the European context. The speaker opposes taxes that burden citizens (taxation of pensions, the sugar tax) and supports alternative revenue sources, such as the bank tax and the digital tax. He advocates postponing the abolition of the tax hump to save half a billion euros and prevent the fleecing of pensioners.
04.2024
30 Speeches
Economic views are strongly opposed to tax hikes, resisting the introduction of new taxes (such as the car tax and sugar tax) and excise duties. He/She supports social expenditures, such as doubling the school lunch subsidy, and defends the income tax exemption for pensioners. He/She proposes abandoning the abolition of the tax hump in order to secure the necessary funds for the budget.
03.2024
17 Speeches
It strongly supports progressive taxation (graduated income tax) and the temporary taxation of banks' excess profits to avoid taxing individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It opposes all increases in consumption taxes (VAT, excise duties) and new taxes (car tax, sugar tax). It demands lower tax rates for essential goods (foodstuffs), citing other European countries as examples.
02.2024
14 Speeches
The economic platform strongly opposes tax hikes (VAT, excise duties, motor vehicle tax) and supports increased investment. The speaker advocates for introducing a bank levy (50% of profits) as an alternative source of revenue for the state coffers, referencing the positive example set by Lithuania. Furthermore, they demand a reduction in the bloated state apparatus and the abandonment of plans to eliminate the income tax kink, all aimed at exiting the recession.
01.2024
17 Speeches
Economic perspectives are strongly polarized regarding tax hikes (Value Added Tax and income tax), given that such increases damage economic activity and consumption. There is opposition to regional policies that divert funds away from well-performing local municipalities. Support is given to regional funding models that incentivize entrepreneurship, such as the partial allocation of corporate income tax based on the location of the job, in order to boost municipalities' interest in fostering business development.