{"id":"deputies/patrick-goldschmidt","title":"Patrick Goldschmidt","type":"deputy","party":"DP","circonscription":"Circonscription Centre","html":"<p>Patrick Goldschmidt is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdp\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dp\">DP</a> in the Circonscription Centre, with a mandate that started on 2023-11-21.</p>\n<h2>Housing and rents</h2>\n<p>2 April 2025 — crediting the tax advantages with moving the housing market in the right direction</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Duerch déi sëlleg steierlech Virdeeler mierke mir, datt de Marché mat all deenen Aktivitéiten an Aarbechtsplazen, déi hannendrun hänken, sech awer erëm an déi richteg Richtung beweegt.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Through the many tax advantages we notice that the market, with all the activities and jobs that hang on it, is moving again in the right direction.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-04-02-n077\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-04-02-n077\">Sitting of 2 April 2025</a></p>\n<p>25 June 2025 — recalling his own party's earlier increase of the same tax credit</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mir ginn elo vun 30.000 op 40.000, mee ech erënneren dorunner, dass déi viregt Regierung, a speziell och d’DP, sech 2023 derfir agesat huet, datt de Bëllegen Akt vun 20.000 op 30.000 eropgeet.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>We are now going from 30,000 to 40,000, but I recall that the previous government, and the DP in particular, worked in 2023 for the Bëllegen Akt to go up from 20,000 to 30,000.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-06-25-n089\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-06-25-n089\">Sitting of 25 June 2025</a></p>\n<p>30 April 2026 — the rapporteur stating the size of the building project</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>De Projet gesäit de Bau vun insgesamt 245 Logementer vir, wou spéiderhin da bis zu 550 Leit solle wunnen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>The project provides for the construction of 245 dwellings in total, where up to 550 people are later to live.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-04-30-n140\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-04-30-n140\">Sitting of 30 April 2026</a></p>\n<h2>Taxation and tax reform</h2>\n<p>19 December 2023 — defending the tax credit as a matter of setting political priorities</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Erlaabt mir awer, hei op dëser Plaz nach eng Kéier ze widderhuelen, dass een an der Politick muss Prioritéiten definéieren a se dann och ëmsetze muss.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Allow me to repeat here once more that in politics you have to define priorities and then also implement them.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2023-12-19-n007\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2023-12-19-n007\">Sitting of 19 December 2023</a></p>\n<p>13 November 2024 — proposing to cut tax on labour rather than raise tax on capital</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dofir hätt ech kee Problem a meng Fraktioun bestëmmt och net, fir de Steiersaz do ze reduzéieren, manner Steieren ze bezuelen, fir eebe méi no erunzekommen un dat, wat um Kapital bezuelt gëtt, an net den ëmgedréite Wee, dass mer um Kapital sollte méi bezuelen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>So I would have no problem, and my group certainly not either, with cutting the rate there, paying less tax, to come closer to what is paid on capital, rather than the other way round, that we should pay more on capital.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-11-13-n043\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-11-13-n043\">Sitting of 13 November 2024</a></p>\n<p>19 December 2024 — praising the government for transposing the OECD changes quickly</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ech felicitéieren der Regierung, dass se déi Ännerungen oder déi Amendementer oder déi Propositiounen, déi gemaach gi sinn um OECD-Niveau, ganz schnell an d’nationaalt Gesetz eriwwerhuelen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>I congratulate the government for taking the changes, the amendments, or the proposals made at OECD level over into national law very quickly.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-19-n057\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-19-n057\">Sitting of 19 December 2024</a></p>\n<p>2 April 2025 — stating that his party does not question the agreement</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fir d’Demokratesch Partei steet eppes fest: Mir stellen dësen Accord net a Fro, well mer der Meenung sinn, dass dëse fir eng méi effikass a gerecht Besteierung suergt.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>For the Democratic Party one thing is settled: we do not put this agreement in question, because we are of the opinion that it provides for a more efficient and fairer taxation.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-04-02-n077\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-04-02-n077\">Sitting of 2 April 2025</a></p>\n<h2>The financial centre and financial regulation</h2>\n<p>20 December 2023 — stating the DP position on following international tax standards</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fir d’Demokratesch Partei steet fest: Lëtzebuerg muss sech weiderhin un déi international Reegelen a Standarden halen. Just esou kënne mer d’Vertrauen an eis Finanzplaz garantéieren an esou och fir déi nächst Joren a Joerzéngten zolidd opstellen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>For the Democratic Party it is settled: Luxembourg must continue to keep to the international rules and standards. Only in that way can we guarantee trust in our financial centre and set it up solidly for the coming years and decades.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2023-12-20-n008\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2023-12-20-n008\">Sitting of 20 December 2023</a></p>\n<p>11 December 2024 — stating that the bill does not touch wealth taxation itself</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ech wëll hei preziséieren, dass mer net un d’Verméigensbesteierung ginn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>I want to make clear here that we are not touching wealth taxation.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-11-n052\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-11-n052\">Sitting of 11 December 2024</a></p>\n<p>16 October 2025 — stating that EU prospectus rules left the regulator no choice</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A wann déi Reegelen all erfëllt sinn, dann huet d’CSSF och keng aner Méiglechkeet, wéi déi Israel-Bonds ze approuvéieren.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>And if all those rules are met, then the CSSF has no other option than to approve the Israel bonds.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-10-16-n101\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-10-16-n101\">Sitting of 16 October 2025</a></p>\n<h2>Also spoke on</h2>\n<p>One recorded quote each, so these are single entries rather than timelines.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Ftransport-and-mobility\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/transport-and-mobility\">Transport and mobility</a>, 12 December 2024, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-12-n053\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-12-n053\">Sitting of 12 December 2024</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>D’Demokratesch Partei deelt d’Suerge vun der grénger Sensibilitéit net.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>The Democratic Party does not share the concerns of the green sensitivity.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fenergy\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/energy\">Energy supply and energy prices</a>, 14 November 2024, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-11-14-n044\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-11-14-n044\">Sitting of 14 November 2024</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dëse Gesetzestext gesäit och vir, dass all betraffent Gebai bis 2027 dës Konditioune respektéiert.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>This legal text also provides that every affected building complies with these conditions by 2027.</em></p>"}