Citizens’ allowance, parental allowance, VAT in restaurants: These are the most important changes that the Parliament’s Budget Committee has recommended for the new federal budget.
Important basic lines of the federal budget have been in place since Friday, and the traffic light budget managers have recorded their political priorities in monetary sums. The Union doubts that the budget can be drawn up seriously after the drastic ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court this week, the traffic light budgets assure the opposite. Next week, experts will be heard on the consequences of the verdict, then the final decision will be made by the householders, and the Bundestag will have to vote later. Compared to the federal government’s draft budget, there has been “massive reallocation,” said SPD budget expert Dennis Rohde. The most important changes at a glance.