The fee should be scrapped

Photo: Jonas Gahr Støre (A) speaking on the castle square (Peter Mydske/Stortinget)
Photo: Jonas Gahr Støre (A) speaking on the castle square (Peter Mydske/Stortinget)

14 November 2022 10:27

The fee should be scrapped

Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: The high-price tax will give us less clean power in both the short and long term. It is a textbook example of how a tax should not be launched.

Experience shows that it is easy to introduce taxes, but more difficult to remove them. The negative effects of the high-price contribution may therefore become permanent, Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup write.

Their feature article Avgiften bør skrotes (in Norwegian) was published in Dagens Næringsliv on 10 November, 2022.