Spritpreise: Drei Monate Entlastung: Bundestag und Bundesrat billigen erneuten Tankrabatt ab 1. Oktober
Die Koalition hat die Steuersenkung im Eiltempo durchgebracht – doch reicht das? Auch bei weiteren Themen wie etwa Kindergeld, Bundespolizei und Autoposing gibt es grünes Licht.
Berlin: The road to a new fuel discount to alleviate drivers from high petrol prices is clear. The Bundestag and Bundesrat approved a black-red coalition law in record time, which provides tax relief of about 17 cents per liter of gasoline and diesel from October to the end of December. The opposition criticized the reissue of the discount, which had already been given for two months in the spring.
State calls are for more reliable measures against expensive energy. With the law, the energy tax on diesel and gasoline is reduced by 14.04 cents per liter. With VAT, the overall relief amounts to 16.7 cents per liter. The federal government anticipates tax losses of up to 2.5 billion euros, to be shared equally between the federal government and the states.
For the law to take effect on October 1st, it now needs the signature of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The Union and SPD had agreed to a relief package after Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) announced it in mid-September. To quickly launch the fuel discount, the tax regulations were attached to a project that was already up for a vote – the Insurance Sanitation, Settlement and Supervision Amendment Act. Shortly after the parliamentary decision, the bill was approved by the Bundesrat.
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