The chatter goes to this idea of an additional tax on airline tickets....if you fly out of a German airport.
Rate? For in-Europe flights....the tax would be around 17-Euro. Longer flights? Up to 58-Euro (max).
Bothering people? Well....if you were a family of four and running off to Thailand or New Zealand....you can figure 232-Euro extra that you would pay. For you and a friend flying off to Vienna...28-Euro extra.
Why the extra tax? There's a hole in the current budget of around 17-billion-Euro.
If you wanted to avoid the tax? If you live near the border regions....say within an hour of Lux-City, or Zurich...you could probably drive over the border...park your car, and save on long-distance flights.
Long term....this staying? Oh, without any doubt, this is a tax that will never ade away. I also don't think it's one-of-a-kind....you might see a dozen taxes invented in 2024....to save the budget crisis.
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I guess that trimming the budget is out of the question. The answer for all governments is not spend less but tax more. I guess they don't notice that that well is running dry.
This particular budget problem is a secondary budget they invented in mid-2021, and was supposed to be used for purely Covid issues within business failures/woes.
After the fall 2021 election....the SPD Party took the win and with the coalition effort....said Covid was no longer a worry, but they'd use the money for non-Covid things (gifts to the public). Well...immediately that was challenged to court. The Constitutional Court said about six weeks ago....'NO', you can't remake the purpose of the money. So those forty-odd things that were supposed to be geared to the free money...fell apart.
They could go and say the gifts are non-funded and just yank them but a lot of their voters will grumble about this falling apart. One of the items....ton of E-car chargers in public setting over the next three years...will likely not occur.
Funny, how this goes to Merkel's budget crew, and left crap on the doorstep of the SPD Party.
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