Tax dispute
Merz says no to tax increases for medium -sized companies
Merz rejects the SPD’s advance to higher taxes, at least for medium -sized companies – and formulates clear expectations of the coalition partner. He is critical of the previous balance.
After the SPD’s advance for higher taxes, Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) excludes an additional burden on medium -sized companies. “With this federal government under my leadership, there will be no increase in income tax for medium -sized companies in Germany,” said Merz at a party congress of the CDU Lower Saxony in Osnabrück – even if there is one or the other in the SPD that “enjoys discussing tax increases”.
Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil had previously stated that he did not rule out higher taxes for top earners and wealthy. “No option is taken off the table,” the SPD chairman told ZDF last week. The background is a billion dollar gaps in the upcoming federal households.
Merz “not satisfied” with previous government work
Merz commented critically about the previous government work of Schwarz-Rot. A new migration policy and impulses for an economic turn had been initiated. But: “I am not satisfied with what we have done so far. It has to be more,” said Merz.
In order to show that Germany can be successfully ruled out of the middle, he would like an SPD that continues the common path “migration -critical and industrial -friendly”, the Chancellor demanded.
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In addition, the communication of the coalition must be better. The CDU boss called both the SPD and its own party not to talk about each other, but to talk to each other.
The welfare state of today “no longer financed”
Merz continued to confirm that a realignment of social policy was needed. “I will be irritated by words like social cuts and clear cutting and what comes,” he said. “The welfare state, as we have it today, can no longer be financed with what we do economically.”
He deliberately does not make it easy for the Social Democrats, said Merz. “But the appeal is aimed at all of us: let’s show us together that changes are possible that reforms are possible.”
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Source: Stern
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