The Dutch Royal House covers its official expenses with an annual item from the State budget.
It is common in all European monarchies.
Governments cover, from the budgets, all expenses that have to do with public activities and the maintenance of all buildings and other properties that belong to the Royal Family.
What is different in different royal houses is how the private expenses of their members are paid.
In the case of the Netherlands,
only three people receive allowances equivalent to salaries.
King William expects
1.1 million euros
from the state budget this year , the equivalent of a monthly salary of
91,666 euros
.
His wife, the Argentine Máxima,
has been allocated 400,000 euros
.
As if she earned 33,333 euros monthly.
Her mother, Queen Emeritus Beatriz, must settle for 300,000, equivalent to 25,000 euros per month.
Princess Amalia, heir to the throne, had the right to receive an allowance like her mother's since she turned 18,
but she rejected it and has never received it
.
Taking into account that her expenses are covered, that they do not pay for housing or travel or that her security is paid for by the State, they do not seem like small emoluments.
Furthermore, that money was until now tax-free, but that is over.
In the case of the Netherlands, only three members of the royal family receive allowances equivalent to salaries.
Photo: Reuters
To pay taxes
The liberal-progressive party D66 (a member of the acting government waiting for the far-right Geert Wilders to manage to form another executive, in which they will not participate), submitted a motion to Parliament, together with the socialists and social democrats, which requested that The three members of the Royal House who receive these allocations (King William, Queen Máxima and Queen Emeritus Beatriz)
will pay taxes on that money.
It was not the first time that some left-wing formation made this proposal, which was usually rejected by the Christian Democrats and the liberal-conservatives.
But this time something changed.
The liberal-conservative party of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte advised its deputies
to vote in favor,
“not to oppose at all” the motion of their government partners.
This decision by Rutte makes it possible to reach the two-thirds of the House necessary for the motion to go ahead, both in Parliament and in the Senate.
The need to reach a two-thirds majority is due to the fact that the change entails a constitutional reform, which until now protects the king from paying taxes.
Of the 150 deputies, at least 100 will have to vote in favor.
And 50 of 75 senators.
The parties that support the motion or that supported it in the past and that will probably vote in favor add up to 112 deputies out of 150 and almost 60 out of the 75 senators.
So from now on and every year the three members of the Royal House will receive, like every Dutchman, an envelope to file their income declaration.
MP Joost Sneller, from the liberal-progressives of D66, said that “it is important that the king also pays taxes.
The teacher does it, the policeman does it too.
“It is important that everyone in the Netherlands contributes to maintaining public services.”
Queen Máxima speaks this Thursday at the World Forum in Davos, in Switzerland.
Photo: EFE
Clarín
made the calculation of how much King William, Queen Máxima and Queen Emeritus Beatriz will have to pay, according to the data available on the website of the Dutch Ministry of Finance.
Of 1.1 million euros, Guillermo must pay, when the reform comes into force, but in principle already this year,
524,504.02 euros
.
In addition, an additional 10,533.02 euros in social security tax.
Of the 1.1 million you will have 564,962.16 euros left, which is not bad either.
Máxima's gross 400,000 euros will remain at 211,462.16
and Queen Emeritus Beatriz's 300,000 will remain at 160,962.16 euros.
To compare with another Royal House.
In Spain, King Felipe VI received 269,296 euros last year.
Queen Letizia 148,105 euros and Queen Emeritus Sofía 121,186 euros.
The other members of the Royal House do not receive allowances.
These emoluments are tax-free.
We will see how long, if the Dutch decision becomes a trend.