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.
This law is part of the development of the Pension Agreement and contains 3 measures aimed at giving employees more choice at retirement.
Following the mass objection plus procedure, State Secretary Van Rij promised that all non-objectors for the years 2017 to 2020 will be entitled to a final court ruling, even if they did not file an application.
At the end of my working day, I like to watch old music videos that can be seen continuously on 192TV. On Wednesday, I had received a distressing message about the death of a young man. That was still playing through my head when I heard the first words of Battle Hymn Of The Republic by Andy Williams. He sang this during the church service for Robert Kennedy's funeral.