The Mediation Committee is today dealing with the Growth Opportunities Act. Tax relief for companies is planned. The Union only wants to agree under one condition.
The Union called on the traffic light to move immediately before the Mediation Committee of the Bundesrat and Bundestag discussed a growth package for the economy. Union parliamentary group vice-president Mathias Middelberg said in a video interview with the dpa in Berlin: “A compromise is feasible and possible.” However, this would also have to include a solution for agricultural diesel. “The traffic lights still have to move a little bit. But we have also moved very far towards the traffic lights as far as the overall package is concerned.” If an agreement does not work, the traffic light is responsible.
The Mediation Committee of the Bundesrat and Bundestag is today dealing, among other things, with the Growth Opportunities Act. For example, it provides tax relief for companies. The Union only wants to agree to the law if the SPD, Greens and FDP forego the planned abolition of the tax break for agricultural diesel.
Middelberg said that in principle he sees good chances for an agreement. A package was negotiated that included a total of 3.2 billion in relief annually. The federal government had actually planned relief of seven billion euros. However, the package became smaller during the mediation process because the states did not want to co-finance relief at the original level.
Union blocks the law? “Complete nonsense!”
Middelberg called the accusation that the Union was blocking the law “complete nonsense.” The mediation committee was called in by all countries – both those in which the Union governs and those in which the SPD and the Greens govern. It is also not irrelevant that the Union is now linking the growth package with the issue of agricultural diesel.
“If it’s about relief for the economy as a whole, then it can’t be the case that you can now counter-finance it by putting a burden on a small, particularly medium-sized industry in return. It can’t be the case that the farmers “Pay the burden on the German economy as a whole.”
Middelberg also pointed out that SPD Prime Ministers such as Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil and Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke had also spoken out in favor of reversing the abolition of agricultural diesel. “We also want to judge the SPD prime ministers by this statement.”
Source: Stern
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