US EditionStadt- Und Gemeindebund Wants to Compensate for "Investitionsbooster"
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The "Investitionsbooster" threatens to tear a billion-dollar hole into the already overloaded municipal funds. The municipal and municipal federation pokes at tagesschau24 on a balance - and goes even further.
Because Germany's economy is in crisis, the government wants to relieve companies in a timely manner. However, the planned tax package means high revenue losses for the countries and municipalities. The calls for compensation are getting louder.
Berlin (dpa/lno) – Hamburg's mayor Peter Tschentscher has accused the Federal Government of wanting to place countries and municipalities on the burdens created by federal decisions. Behind the difficult word «connexity of cause» is the simple demand, «that in German federalism always the one who bears the costs of a political decision, which causes it», said the SPD politician after a conference of the heads of state government with the Federal…
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LVZ - Leipziger VolkszeitungThe black-red coalition wants to boost the economy by tax relief, but the countries do not want to pay for it. At a meeting with Chancellor Merz, there was at least a basic agreement.
Not only the federal states, but also the municipalities are struggling with budgetary holes and demand compensation from the federal government for tax failures and additional expenditures.
The German Association of Cities is calling on the federal government to fully offset local government tax revenue shortfalls through the coalition's investment program. "Growth impulses for the economy are important," said German Association of Cities President Burkhard Jung to the newspapers of the Funke Media Group (Wednesday editions). "But the federal government must finance this and not burden the already overburdened municipalities with a…
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