When a court imposes a fine, you need to multiply that amount by 8 to find out how much you really have to pay. Why?

Answer

All fines that a criminal court can impose are included in the criminal code. The criminal code stipulates a minimum and a maximum fine, between which the judge can choose. However, the more time passes, the less our money is actually worth (because of inflation or currency depreciation). Our legislators want to prevent them from having to adjust all minimum and maximum fines in the criminal code every so often in order to remain relatively equal to the value of a number of years before. That is why the figure of the ‘opdecimen on criminal fines’ was introduced. As a result, by amending one law, the legislator can immediately have all fines multiplied by a certain amount to meet this monetary devaluation, without having to adjust each fine individually. From January 1, 2017, these surcharges were increased to 8, before it was 6.