AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government on Tuesday said that tax avoidance it enables – in the form of money funnelled through the Netherlands to tax havens – has declined significantly since 2019, citing data from the central bank. In a letter to parliament, the Finance Ministry estimated that cash flows through the Netherlands to countries with very low taxation rates had fallen by 85% from 38.5 billion euros ($40.5 billion) in 2019 to 6 billion euros in 2021. In 2021, the Dutch government began imposing a tax on outgoing interest payments and royalties to countries that have a tax rate o…