The needy, the working middle and energy-intensive companies should benefit: Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) is already planning the third relief package from the federal government. “I see three necessities,” he specified in an interview with the “Rheinische Post” (Friday edition). “Citizen’s allowance and housing benefit help those in need, the inflation adjustment against the cold progression protects the middle. There will have to be targeted economic aid for energy-intensive companies,” says Lindner. This would work, for example, by extending the peak equalization for two more years.
While the SPD and the Greens are demanding direct state payments, Lindner firmly rejects this: “My advice to us is that we limit ourselves to a few, targeted instruments.” when and how they are relieved. “Due to the large number of relief measures to date, it was not clear to the citizens where the state was already relieving.”
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Lindner also rejects demands for an excess profit tax and once again opposes his coalition partners: “Tax law must be protected from arbitrariness.” After the statements became known, Green Party leader Katharina Dröge confirmed to the AFP news agency: “For counter-financing, it is now even more necessary Introduction of an excess profit tax.” SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert is also openly promoting the introduction of such a tax.
In order not to call into question the debt brake for the coming year, Lindner expects a “low double-digit billion amount”. As the SPD federal executive announced on Twitter in the evening, the relief package is in the “final votes”. The negotiations are likely to be tough.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has to testify before the Cum-Ex investigative committee on Friday. The Chancellor is under pressure – and new documents are increasing this pressure. Diary entries by a Warburg banker again put the chancellor in trouble.
The talk shows are picking up speed again: it’s about gas and the crisis. In “Maybrit Illner” an ex-minister repeatedly fights against the government. Left-wing politician Wissler has to listen to attracting the right. And Eckart von Hirschhausen is anything but funny.
In addition to the gas levy to save important importers, gas customers could face other levies.
