"This additional credit point is part of a series of decisions we have made," said the Minister of Finance (pictured: at the funeral of the sisters of the Di family, in Kfar Etzion) (Photo: Roni Knafo)
"News for parents"
declared the headline that came out from close associates of the Chairman of the Finance Committee, MK Moshe Gafni, after the Knesset approved the Finance Minister's proposal to extend the validity of the tax benefit for parents of children aged 6-12, and Knesset Member Gafni hastened to adorn himself with feathers that were not his and interpreted from the podium This is an additional 470 shekels for each child, starting with the March 2023 salary - and from 2024 it will also be for children up to the age of 18."
The Minister of Finance was also quick to take credit:
"The fight against the cost of living is in our hearts.
This additional credit point is part of a series of decisions we have made and we are promoting a reduction in the cost of living for the citizens of Israel."
Minister's speech.
Of the two, Gafni's sin is smaller, he simply told the truth, even if not the whole truth (we'll get to that soon). The Minister of Finance, on the other hand, simply lied with a determined forehead to accept a committee, when he presented the right point as "part of a series of decisions we made".
Where is the truth?
In the laconic message of
the spokeswoman of the Knesset
And also in that of
the Tax Authority
, which was distributed immediately after the decision was made in the Knesset, to say:
"The Knesset plenum approved in second and third reading the bill on credit points for parents in income tax and increasing the work grant (temporary order) 2023...
" It is proposed to extend the period of the temporary order which grants one additional credit point
to each parent for their children who are at least six years old but not yet thirteen years old in 2022...
"In the explanation, it was stated that due to the need to find a budgetary source to implement the provision of the law, the law will only enter into force after the entry into force of the budget law for the year 2023. The expectation is that during the enactment of the budget law and the economic plan for the years 2023 and 2024, the aforementioned amount will be allocated, and the temporary order will continue until the end of the tax year at least." Did the
state take money from your paycheck? Wait another month or two
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"Who gave the order?"
Hint: In the picture in front of you are hidden those who really made the decision to grant the credit point to working parents (photo: Bini Ashkenazi)
How do you turn negligence into an achievement?
Now to the events behind the "good news" according to Smotrich and Gafni, let us remind you - the Minister of Finance and the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the State of Israel.
This is a decision made at the time by the former Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett and the Minister of Finance in his government, Avigdor Lieberman, who decided that the state must come to meet parents Employees who are having trouble making ends meet.
The current government, which turns out to be negligent in its art, was negligent and did not take care to extend the curfew in time.
What happened, as a result, is that quite a few astonished parents discovered a "hole" of hundreds of shekels in their pay slip for the month of March, The one to which they were exposed a few days ago, on April 15.
The working assumption was that the amount would be settled quickly, but in view of the rampant inflation, the increase in the cost of living and the increase in interest rates that will make mortgage repayments very expensive, for many families even this forced "loan" to the state treasury, an "involuntary borrower", is something that will force them to run to the bank and beg for their lives, so that the credit card account or the payment to the children's class is not returned by the bank.
Moreover - even assuming that the bank understands their heart and situation and will approve the payments, they are of course harmed by the overdraft, the overdraft that has become especially expensive.
All this why?
Because the legislators who live from recess to recess (and whose salary has jumped sharply, very recently) have already gotten used to not seeing the people who have to work day after day to make ends meet.
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When will the working parents receive the money deducted from their wages?
With a little luck already on 15.5, with a little less - only on 15.6.
In other words, dear parents, ask your bank managers to be patient with expensive account irregularities.
By the way, it should be noted that the continuation of the benefit requires a budgetary source.
Therefore, it depends on the passage of the 2023 budget in the second and third reading.
when will it happen?
Just a little before the end of May.
It is true that right now it seems that the government will be able to pass the budget, but you know how it is - demands by rebellious MKs for special funds have already caused a lot of trouble in the past for governments that wanted to pass a budget on time, or to sum it up in two words: we will live and see. Both MK Gafni
and In their words, Minister Smotrich mentioned the increase in the age range to 13-17, but the honorable gentlemen treated it as a fait accompli, while at the moment it is at least part of the 2024 budget. When will it pass and how?
Again - we'll live and see.
There is no need to be dumbfounded, politicians are quick to take credit for what appears to be success and run away like fire from failures.
We got used to this norm a long time ago and to be fair it is not the property of one political camp or another, but to take a decision of the previous government - which you whitewashed in public, a decision whose implementation was stopped due to your negligence, and present it as "good news" and the pinnacle of the war on the cost of living?
This is how a point of credit became a point for thought, not to mention a mental calculation.
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