As many of you know, since January 1, 2018, we shared our office building with our tenants from James Robinson. After 5 years of pleasant cooperation, the rental agreement has come to an end. The reason is that we simply outgrew each other, which is obviously a positive development from both sides.
I had promised not to vote. I kept it, despite the frequent flare-ups of conscience. My vote could not stop the political landslide. At least that is what the newspaper called it. Instead of a dancing Kaag on the table now a dancing Caroline on the stage.
On 1 January 2021, the starter's exemption (0% rate) was introduced. Due to this exemption, homebuyers between the ages of 18 and 35 pay no transfer tax once if they buy a property of up to €440,000. The property must then be used "other than temporarily" as their main residence and this must be documented in a declaration.
Following the Supreme Court's ruling on box 3 at the end of 2021, also known as the 'Christmas ruling', the government tried to revise the taxation in box 3 by introducing the flat-rate savings variant. This flat-rate savings variant approximates actual returns, but is still based on flat rates.
On the 10th of March, young entrepreneurs Jeroen Kusters and Maurice Weerts were able to open a new branch of Elektro Weerts, or De Witgoedspecialist, at the Stein shopping centre.
On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the clocks will go forward another hour and we will already be entering summer time. For years, summer and winter time has been a point of discussion in Europe. In the Netherlands, summer time has already been introduced twice. In 1916, to save energy and in 1977, not to lag behind other countries that reintroduced summer time at the time.
Last week I was in Lattrop, a small village in Twente. Not immediately a place you think of when looking for relaxation. It lies in the north-eastern part of Twente, pressed up against the German border. Twente is in Overijssel and has nothing to do with the Achterhoek, as is often assumed. Places like Hengelo, Almelo, Enschede and Oldenzaal are well known. Not exactly cities you want to visit in particular, either. Unless it should be for Oldenzaal's big carnival parade, which attracts as many as 100,000 people.
ChatGPT's text generator (Generative Pretrained Transformer) is a popular topic among technical professionals. Many of them praise the text generator, while journalists and writers fear it will be replaced by a computer in the foreseeable future.