With Sugar, Cigarettes and Sparkling Wine the State Wants to Collect - Electricity Tax Reduction Unclear
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The black and red coalition is still wrestling to impose further discharges for the citizens in the budget. The Chancellor wants to reduce the electricity tax. Could the money come from the revenues for renewable energies?
After Finance Minister Klingbeil announced the plastic tax, everything seems to be open again. Even with the crypto and sugar tax, everything seems to be in flux. What the coalition is discussing. By Lissy Kaufmann.
Berlin – The sugar tax is firmly planned in the budget of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), although within the coalition there is still a dispute as to whether and when it will come at all. This is evident from the revision proposal of the budget committee of the Bundestag, which is available to the German Medical Bulletin.
Prior to the final consultation on the budget in 2027, Minister of Finance Klingbeil relies on higher taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugary beverages. A new plastic tax is disputed. For the reduction of the electricity tax promised by Merz, the money is probably missing.
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