IKEA is cutting prices on more than 500 products in the Netherlands starting Tuesday. The furniture chain says it will charge 15 to 25 percent less on average for storage systems, sofa beds, and other home goods.
The Dutch cabinet is scaling back some of its planned cuts to social security. It also wants higher earners to pay more tax, according to documents seen by RTL Nieuws. The plans were part of the upcoming budget day package.
Frankrijk is het eerste EU-land dat heffingen invoert op extreme fast fashion. Het land wil zich beschermen tegen goedkope kleding van Aziatische webshops zoals Temu en SHEIN. De maatregel is dinsdag ingegaan.
The US Federal Trade Commission and 22 states have filed a lawsuit against Amazon. They allege the company secretly raised advertising prices for years, earning potentially tens of billions of dollars unfairly. The lawsuit claims Amazon used its market power to inflate ad costs without transparency.
The Dutch tax authority collected 139 million euros last year from people who hid income or assets. That includes money stashed in foreign bank accounts, opaque structures, and digital products like cryptocurrency. The agency says it is getting better at finding hidden wealth.