In the Aktuality.sk podcast, editor Peter Hanák asked CELSI founder and Scientific Director Martin Kahanec how realistic these measures are.

Any future government in Slovakia will have to consolidate public finances. Progressive Slovakia (PS), the strongest opposition party, has presented its programme document TRESK 2. Among other things, it proposes lower taxes on labour, cuts in state administration and a reduction of low-skilled migration.

In the Aktuality.sk podcast, editor Peter Hanák asked CELSI founder and Scientific Director Martin Kahanec how realistic these measures are. Kahanec considers shifting taxation from labour to property and negative externalities a good goal. However, tax cuts take effect almost immediately, while compensating revenues come more slowly. “A credible roadmap will be needed,” he says.

As a labour migration expert, he also assessed the proposals on migration and on involving domestic workers, young and older, more and less qualified. Slovakia will face labour shortages in less qualified occupations too, especially in care and healthcare. “It is important that migration policy is linked to tools for involving the domestic workforce we have in Slovakia.”

🔗 Read the full interview with Martin Kahanec by Peter Hanák in Aktuality.sk at: https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/3yPdXJN/dan-z-migranta-ps-navrhuje-aby-firmy-platili-za-dovoz-nekvalifikovanych/

🔗 Watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcaYh4Oxju4

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