The Finance Ministry is considering raising taxes on the highest earners in order to fund more social measures. Treasury officials are considering introducing a so-calledwealth tax by adding new income tax brackets for the highest earners. Treasury and tax officials are also considering increasing the tax on interest payments,dividends and capital gains by 5 percent. These taxes currently range from 15 percent to 25 percent. Officials said the extra money would be used to fund measures demanded by social justice protesters and lower the burden on the middleclass. Treasury officials are also considering halting planned cuts to corporate tax and income tax. In January 2012, corporate taxes are scheduled to be cut from 24 percent to 23 percent. The Finance Ministry is looking into canceling this cut, and raising corporate taxes by a few percent instead.Currently, corporate taxes are supposed to drop 1 percent each year until 2016,until they reach 18 percent.