In addition, one will probably not be able to get out completely, but only “make the percentage so low that it is no longer relevant,” he said on Saturday in the Ö1 program “Im Journal zu Gast”. In view of the enormous inflation due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, there will be new measures.W
Kocher also emphasized – as his German counterpart Robert Habeck from the Greens had done before – that the Austrians would “relatively speaking” become poorer as a result of the enormous inflation, because you can get practically the same services for more money. Nevertheless, he was optimistic that the price increase will decrease again. Kocher believes that the abolition of the cold progression through an automatism in the tax rates is possible.
NEOS reacted angrily to Kocher’s vague announcements about inflation. “The government must finally stop discussing possible measures and taking hard-earned money out of people’s pockets,” said social and economic spokesman Gerald Loacker in a broadcast.
Source: Nachrichten
