Communications director Ola Helge Hjetland confirms to news that the company will take legal action against the saten. It was the newspaper E24 that reported this first. – We will file a case against the state via the Oslo District Court, because we believe that the fine fee related to the salmon tax is discriminatory and in violation of the EEA rules and the four freedoms, including the free movement of capital, says Mowi CEO Ivan Vindheim to the newspaper. He believes the government has been clear that it is the five big salmon companies they want to target. Vindheim believes that it is against the EEA rules that the smallest companies should avoid paying tax, and refers to the competition rules in the EEA agreement. – We already had a land rent tax model in Norway that worked excellently and was neutral when it came to the size of the company. Now the government has introduced a system that is discriminatory. We demand equality before the law, he says. In May, the Storting decided to introduce a basic rent tax on aquaculture of 25 per cent with effect from 1 January 2023. Originally, the proposal from the government was a tax of 40 per cent. Facts about ground rent tax Ground rent tax is paid from income you get by exploiting the community’s natural resources, such as water, wind and sea. Comes from the English expression “ground rent”, i.e. ground rent or land rent. When a wind farm has been set up in a mountain area or a salmon farm has been built in a fjord, the area is not freely accessible to others. Access to natural resources is limited, and this limits competition. This makes it easier to get extraordinarily high incomes in industries that utilize natural resources. Basic interest tax must be paid on income the companies receive in excess of what they can normally expect from their own investments and work effort, as a result of this benefit. Basic interest tax is also called super profit. (Source: NTB)
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The salmon giant Mowi is suing the state because of the salmon tax – news Vestland
