Opinie | Waarom het fiscale debat aan precisie ontbreekt

Tax policy debates in the Netherlands often suffer from imprecise language and weak argumentation, according to legal experts Carl Dijkstra and Sam van der Vlugt. They argue that productive fiscal discussions require disciplined use of terminology, transparent assumptions, and genuine evidence-based reasoning. The experts contend that while outright deception is rare, the way tax debates are framed frequently undermines the binding force of data, empirical support, and semantic accuracy.