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Bloomberg
03-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
German Coalition Resists Calls for Wider Electricity-Tax Cut
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's ruling coalition rebuffed calls to expand an electricity-tax discount to include households and additional companies, saying they'll only do so when they have 'financial leeway.' In their blueprint for government, Merz's conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the Social Democrats pledged to cut electricity levies for all consumers to the European minimum. However, the draft 2025 budget presented last week only included an easing of the burden for larger manufacturers, farmers and the forestry sector.
Bloomberg
03-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
German Coalition Resists Calls for Broader Electricity-Tax Cut
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's ruling coalition rebuffed calls to expand a discounted electricity tax to include households and additional companies, saying they'll only do so when they have 'financial leeway.' In their blueprint for government, Merz's conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the Social Democrats pledged to cut electricity levies for all consumers to the European minimum. However, the draft 2025 budget presented last week only included an easing of the burden for larger manufacturers, farmers and the forestry sector.
