Pension insurance contributions should be deductible, and a “corona tax law” should prevent companies from going bankrupt. Finance Minister Lindner wants to take tax relief from citizens and companies by 2025. He urges politics to be thrifty.
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to relieve citizens and companies of “significantly” more than 30 billion euros in this legislative period. The 2022 budget was “still shaped by the previous government, but my draft for 2023 will contain relief,” said Lindner of “Bild am Sonntag”. For example, the contributions to the pension insurance would then be fully tax deductible and the EEG surcharge on the electricity price would be abolished.
In addition, Lindner announced a “Corona tax law”. “A number of aid measures will be created or expanded,” he told the BamS. For example, losses in 2022 and 2023 should be offset against profits from previous years. “Nobody should be driven into ruin by tax debts during the pandemic,” said Lindner.
Meanwhile, the finance minister reaffirmed the goal of fully complying with the debt brake again from 2023. After the pandemic, “we have to go back to solid public finances”.
“Signal that we are careful with taxpayers’ money”
Specifically, Lindner called for the new construction of the 50 million euro government terminal at Berlin’s BER airport not to be built. “I do not consider a new representative building for state guests and ministers to be necessary.” He hopes that the Foreign Office, led by Annalena Baerbock (Greens), will change its previous opinion. The previous transitional building could be used permanently. “A waiver would be the signal that we are careful with taxpayers’ money.”
Lindner had already made solid finances and adherence to the debt brake key issues during the federal election campaign. However, when he presented a supplementary budget through which unused loans to the fight against the corona pandemic in the amount of 60 billion euros were rededicated for investments in climate protection and digitization, criticism from the opposition raged.
Source From: Stern

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