tax policy
Lindner’s law blocked – exam to solve dispute
Finance Minister Christian Lindner and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz before the Federal Cabinet meeting. photo
© Kay Nietfeld/dpa
The dispute in the traffic light continues after the summer break: a draft law on tax breaks for companies does not make it through the cabinet. The FDP attacked the Greens sharply.
After the Federal Cabinet blocked the Growth Opportunities Act, the traffic light coalition collapsed. FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai sharply attacked the Greens: “The internal quarrels of the Greens are preventing essential economic stimuli, which Germany urgently needs in the current difficult situation,” he told the German Press Agency in Berlin.
“I expect that this blocking attitude will be abandoned immediately and that the Growth Opportunities Act can finally help to improve the economic situation in Germany.”
Acute deadlock in the cabinet
The planned tax breaks for companies should actually have been decided by the cabinet today. However, the law was acutely blocked in the cabinet, as the dpa learned from government circles. A press conference by Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) on the subject was canceled at short notice.
Djir-Sarai spoke of a “missed opportunity for Germany as a business location, which can be attributed to the Greens”. After Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) had already signaled his approval of the law, Green Family Minister Lisa Paus prevented companies in Germany from being relieved and the economy being put back on track.
“Ms. Paus is playing social issues against our economic power,” criticized the FDP general secretary. “This is more than dishonest and harms our country as a whole – both the companies and the people.”