Oil Companies Earn Billions of Fuel Prices – Klingbeil Now Wants to Ask Them to Pay More
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Fuel prices have become more expensive as a result of the Iran war and burden motorists. Meanwhile, oil companies benefit from higher profits. The finance minister wants to change that.
At the pump, prices continue to rise, and the profits of the energy companies increase rapidly. Federal Minister of Finance Lars Klingbeil (SPD) now wants to tax more strictly together with other EU countries.
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High fuel prices put pressure on consumers. Lars Klingbeil and European partners demand an EU-wide over-profit tax for oil companies.
The big oil companies doubled their profits in the Iran crisis. The Federal Finance Minister wants to tax these excess profits. Together with five European colleagues, he plans a common approach according to SPIEGEL information.
The call for a tax on the "over-profits" becomes louder – simply to demand such a tax is not.
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