State Secretary Van Rij (Finance) is happy to acknowledge that institutional racism takes place within the tax authorities. Sources in The Hague inform NOS that the cabinet will probably discuss a proposal to that effect from the CDA minister tomorrow. The cabinet discussed this last Friday, but those present did not agree.
The problem is that tax and customs authorities can put people on the scam list for all sorts of wrong reasons. For example, recent research shows that people who donate money to a mosque have a chance to get on this scam list. Nationality can also play a role.
There were work instructions stating that these issues had to be addressed. As a result, part of the Tax and Customs Administration placed more emphasis on personal characteristics than on tax characteristics.
discriminatory
Van Rij previously admitted that this was not true and acknowledged that it was discrimination, which he described as “discrimination”, but he did not want to talk about racism at the time. Prime Minister Rutte also said earlier that she does not believe that there is institutional racism in the Dutch government.
After Parliamentary questions on this subject and the national coordinator of the fight against discrimination and racism, Rabin Baldewsingh, there seems to be some movement in The Hague. Legislators wondered how the government could have argued that there was no systemic racism here if the work instructions had been drawn up in that direction.
Baldewsingh recently told Trouw: “The definition I use includes institutional racism as policy, and the written and unwritten rules of institutions or organizations are based on origin, ethnicity, religion, etc. leading to unequal treatment. And: “The IRS had a list of criteria for detecting scams that included exactly these things: donations to the mosque, nationality. It was, by definition, institutional racism.”
Part of tax and customs administration
The cabinet has reportedly previously claimed that recognizing institutional racism would have a huge impact on all tax administrations. It seems that we now want to make a statement emphasizing that this is part of the tax and customs administration and that this service is not inherently racist per se.
If the cabinet adopts Van Rij’s proposal, there could be legal consequences for the tax authorities that the Ministry of Finance previously feared. This had to be arranged. The result may become clear tomorrow.
Source: NOS
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