“It is a classic ræverød policy, where it is the companies that must pay the bill,” says Søren Pape Poulsen.
He is particularly upset over the government’s ambition to retrieve a billion dollars by raising the inheritance tax at succession planning in family-owned businesses from 6 to 15 percent.
“If you bring a billion with the companies, it will be felt at the 850.000 danes who work in a family owned business. If there is to be a succession, you must collect the money in the company, and it sahabet can cost jobs,” says Søren Pape Poulsen.
He believes that the increased tax will particularly hit small and medium-sized businesses as artisans, hairdressers, farmers and small industrial enterprises, who may not have the capital to implement a succession. Instead, fear him, and that foreign private equity funds will take over the companies.
he has Therefore a clear call for companies that are considering a generational change.
“Wait until the generation change. So it may be that there will be a different government. But it will cost a billion, which the government does not get into,” says Søren Pape Poulsen.
