Government and politics
Filter by year:- Largest rise for spending on secondary vocational education
- Increasing financial buffer for provinces
- Majority of Dutch population would like to see income gaps narrowed
- Increased government spending in 2006
- More money invested to combat air pollution from traffic
- Sharp rise in foreign policy expenditure
- Revised version: Local authorities earmark more money for care and housing and cut back on income support
- Increase municipal levies less substantial after correction
- More money for listed buildings, no extra money for sports
- Half of public education governed by independent body
- Inheritance tax revenues again higher in 2006
- Local authorities earmark more money for care and housing and cut back on income support
- Vehicle taxes top 14 billion euro
- Wage tax puts extra billions into government coffers
- Sewage charges considerably higher
- Smallest increase in water board levies since 1999
- Provinces plan substantial spending in 2007
- Voters prefer computer to red pencil