Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said in an inteview published on Saturday his party should seek a "tax revolution" focusing mainly on progressive taxation for both individuals and companies. Czechs have a 19-percent corporate tax since 2010, while salaries have been taxed at a 15-percent flat rate since 2008 when it was introduced by a centre-right government.
Sobotka said this system was created by the "big and rich" who passed the tax burden onto the weak. "We cannot maintain this system, we have to crush it," Sobotka told Pravo daily paper. "There needs to be a tax revolution... I also want progressive tax for companies. There is no reason for big multinationals to pay the same rate as small businesses."
Any such change is possible only after the next general election, scheduled for October 2017. Sobotka's Social Democrats have come second in most of the opinion polls in past months, lagging behind their coalition partner, the centrist ANO movement of Finance Minister and billionaire Andrej Babis, who has opposed any tax raise.
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