High tax country Germany? With whom the Treasury collects particularly heavily

Berlin The Federal Ministry of Finance begins with an admission. Germany belongs “to the group of high-tax countries,” says the foreword to a new analysis from the department of Christian Lindner (FDP). The 48-page report is entitled “The most important taxes in an international comparison” and examines the tax burden in industrialized countries. It is available to the Handelsblatt.

“In Germany, both the taxation of corporations and the tax and duty burden on labor is high in international comparison,” write Lindner’s experts. The finance minister should see this as confirmation of his call for tax cuts.

Last year, Lindner pushed through relief for cold progression. Now he wants to support companies and has submitted a draft of his so-called Growth Opportunities Act.