Vil gå etter bankene: – De tar inn så mye de kan

Marthe Hammer, the spokesperson for the Socialist Left Party (SV) on fiscal policy, indicated that they intend to address the issue in the next month's budget negotiations. They plan to recover more tax revenue from banks by revisiting the financial tax introduced in 2017 by former Prime Ministers Erna Solberg and Siv Jensen. Hammer believes that the current financial tax benefits banks too much, while businesses and consumers bear the brunt of the tax.

The financial tax was introduced to compensate for financial services being exempt from value-added tax (VAT). However, a government report estimates that the exemption costs the government 19.8 billion kroner in 2025, up from 9 billion kroner in 2016. Hammer points out that the banking sector is thriving, with Norges Bank, the largest bank, earning 12.5 billion kroner in profit before tax in the latest quarter.

She also highlighted that large banks are benefiting from record-breaking interest rates, earning an additional 2.76 billion kroner in income from customers' deposits.