The expenditure for the royal family will exceed 50 million for the first time next year: 50.169 million euros. Last year it was 48.2 million.
According to the Financial Status Act of the Royal House (WFSKH), four members of the royal house receive a constitutional benefit. Not only the king, but also his wife, his predecessor Beatrix and his successor Princess Amalia.
The benefits paid to members of the royal family now amount to almost 11 million euros. That was 10.5 million last year. Those incomes are linked to increases in civil servant salaries.
The functional expenditure of the king is estimated at 32.2 million euros, and the passed-on expenses of other budgets amount to 7 million.
King cashes in more than million in income
The king will receive 6.4 million euros this year. The A component is his personal income: 1,035,000 euros. That was 1 million this year. The rest of the amount, 5.4 million euros, is spent on the B component: expenditure on personnel and material expenditure. This includes the costs for the vehicle fleet of the Royal House Service.
Queen Máxima receives 411,000 euros as income, which was 400,000 euros last year. She will receive 700,000 euros for personnel and material expenses.
In addition to AOW, Princess Beatrix will receive 585,000 euros as income. 1.154 million is earmarked for its personnel and material expenditure. The AOW gives them away to charities. This also happened with the AOW of her husband Prince Claus.
Amalia returns
The most curious repayment is the 1.7 million euros that has been budgeted for Amalia. She will receive 307,000 euros as income and 1.4 million for the B component for personnel and equipment. She doesn’t want it, but she has to receive it anyway.
Amalia indicated in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Rutte last summer that she finds it inconvenient to receive such an amount, because she is studying and will not offer anything in return. “I will therefore refund the income until the end of my studies.”
Apparently the Ministry of Finance is not in a position not to deposit that money. It is deposited because it is in the constitution. If Amalia receives her money monthly, she has had to return it nine times so far. She can perform that act every month until the summer of 2027, when her studies end.
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