286 Dutch tech entrepreneurs are calling on Minister Adriansen (economic affairs and climate) and State Secretary Van Rijj (finance) to incentivize preconditions for employee participation and reinvest proceeds into new companies, despite the fall of the Cabinet. Therefore, the government’s ambition of “paying forward” culture must be fulfilled.
Before its fall, the government expressed its ambition to create a better business climate for fast-growing companies that use innovation in response to the great social transformations of our time. In an open letter, tech entrepreneurs, supported by 42 other organizations such as investors, interest groups and venture builders, asked ministers to take the next step in incentivizing employee engagement and enabling tech entrepreneurs to charge their employees. As in the UK and Sweden.
Threatening to stop
Don’t let next year be a wasted year.
In addition, the founders are calling on employees and investors in unlisted startups, start-ups and adults to be able to pay their taxes when the shares are liquid, through a capital gains tax. This is in the discussion surrounding the revision of Box 3.
“We write this letter to you as entrepreneurs in startups, large companies, and adults after the fall of the government,” As stated in the open letter. “In recent years, you have worked for a better business climate for fast-growing companies. With this letter, we would like to appeal to both of you not to allow the coming year to be a lost year and to take together the necessary step to enhance the business climate mentioned above.
Well-known companies such as Picnic, MessageBird, Bunq, Mollie, Catawiki, and Techleap are also among the signatories.
