Tax cut
Thuringia: Ramelow warns CDU about a “pact with the devil”
Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Left) is not alone in his criticism of the CDU. photo
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A controversial bill from the CDU is about to be implemented – together with the AfD and FDP. The left-wing politician Bodo Ramelow finds clear words about this.
Thuringia’s Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Left) has The CDU warned against pushing a reduction in the real estate transfer tax through the state parliament together with the AfD and FDP. “Instead of targeted family support, as the CDU once wanted, it has now decided for ideological reasons to make a pact with the devil,” Ramelow told the Editorial Network Germany (RND).
The Union only seems to care about ideology. “The CDU is taking family support hostage in order to improve general real estate assets with a flat-rate tax cut.”
SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert, among others, had previously warned that the CDU would lose distance from the AfD. “The federal CDU has no authority whatsoever to enforce the course of AfD demarcation announced by Friedrich Merz among party friends in Erfurt,” he explained in Berlin.
At the end of last week, the state parliament’s budget committee cleared the way for the CDU bill to be voted on in the state parliament this Thursday. The CDU, AfD and FDP had already outvoted the red-red-green government coalition in the committee. The Left, SPD and Greens have no longer had their own majority in the state parliament since 2019; they are four votes short.
The CDU’s controversial draft law has been before the state parliament since March. According to the CDU parliamentary group, it also contains a passage according to which the state should reimburse families for the property transfer tax when they purchase their first residential property. The basis for assessment is a purchase price of a maximum of half a million euros and a maximum refund of 25,000 euros.