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Three types of creative problem solving: stay away from the Paper Palace !
Fortunately, there are lawyers who have never embraced the tournament model and instead focus on results and interests rather than battles and positions.
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Publicaties
The Netherlands as seen by a UK resident - Private Client Business, Sweet Maxwell 2023 / 1
Publication in 'Private Client Business' published by Sweet & Maxwell, 2023/ 1 on 'The Netherlands seen by a UK resident' written by Dr. Ineke A. Koele.
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Excessive giving to charities ? The Patagonia revolution is stifled
Ineke wrote recently a pamflet in the periodical Fiscal Tijdschrift on Wealth (December 2022), which is informally translated below:
"Excessive Giving to charities” - Patagonia revolution is stifled
'But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought' - George Orwell , 1984
Intro
Philanthropists who donate their assets away to charities[1] are, in the terminology of our legislator, engaged in 'Excessive Giving', while because of the defiscalisation of these gifts in our tax law, according to the Ministry of Finance, a large part of the 'budgetary impact of the gift deduction' is utilised.
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