Tag: excess profit tax
Is your electricity price going up? What experts are now advising consumers to do
electricity meter Part of the electricity consumption will in future be offered at a capped tariff. (Photo: IMAGO/aal.photo) Berlin, Dusseldorf Electricity and gas suppliers are increasing their prices across the…
Traffic light agrees on special tax for mineral oil and gas companies
Christian Lindner, Robert Habeck and Olaf Scholz The specialist politicians of the traffic light bosses have agreed on the package that the Bundestag could now adopt. (Photo: IMAGO/Jens Schicke) Berlin…
Traffic light agrees on special tax for mineral oil and gas companies
Christian Lindner, Robert Habeck and Olaf Scholz The specialist politicians of the traffic light bosses have agreed on the package that the Bundestag could now adopt. (Photo: IMAGO/Jens Schicke) Berlin…
Lindner wants 33 percent tax for oil and gas companies
Christian Lindner The Federal Minister of Finance apparently exceeds EU limits with his budget for 2023. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The Federal Ministry of Finance wants to tax excess profits from…
When the Treasury becomes a climate killer
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High profits increase the pressure on excess profits tax
BP logo on a petrol tank in London London The British energy group BP achieved the second best result in its history in the third quarter. The company’s net income…
Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof is once again insolvent
Good morning dear readers, Sad but true – at some point, long-lasting misery no longer arouses pity, but weariness: the school friend who repeatedly ends up in toxic relationships. The…
US President threatens oil companies with excess profits tax
US President Joe Biden The US President is holding the energy companies accountable. (Photo: dpa) Washington Shortly before the midterm elections in the USA, US President Joe Biden brought the…
Skimming off profits is also not a solution
oil platform The producers of fossil fuels are currently recording enormously high sales. (Photo: dpa) So far there has been little resistance to the radical proposal that the EU Commission…
New Prime Minister wants to abolish excess profits tax
Liz Truss The new British Prime Minister in Question Time in the House of Commons. (Photo: AP) London The new UK government will not introduce any more windfall taxex on…
There is a fine line between governing and dabbling
Robert Habeck (left), Olaf Scholz Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck’s gas levy was such bad government work that not even he could use his rhetorical talent to sugarcoat it.…
Dispute in the traffic light coalition on excess profit tax
International oil companies are making big profits The call for the introduction of an excess profit tax is getting louder – but there are many hurdles. (Photo: REUTERS) Berlin It…
The coalition peace is not only endangered by the nuclear dispute
Christian Lindner and Robert Habeck Ultimately, it is also about votes. (Photo: AP) Berlin Chancellor Olaf Scholz watched how teams work at the European Championship final at Wembley Stadium. As…
Energy crisis: Nuclear power plant terms against debt brake
Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant in the evening The traffic light government disagrees about the nuclear power plant running times. Berlin The traffic light coalition argues about the basic attitudes of…
Driving bans and speed limit: traffic light argues about energy-saving measures
Berlin A new debate has flared up in Germany about what measures should be taken to respond to rising energy prices. A move by SPD leader Saskia Esken is particularly…
How Europe is experimenting with a tax on crisis profits
London, Rome, Athens, Vienna, Brussels, Madrid “Skim off crisis profits – cap costs!” If IG Metall has its way, the so-called excess profit tax on random profits from dominant energy…
How Europe is experimenting with a tax on crisis profits
London, Rome, Athens, Vienna, Brussels, Madrid “Skim off crisis profits – cap costs!” If IG Metall has its way, the so-called excess profit tax on random profits from dominant energy…
The mineral oil industry must become more transparent
Industrial plants at the Shell Rheinland refinery in Godorf In the 1970s, data was collected from all refinery companies operating in the Federal Republic of Germany. (Photo: imago images/Future Image)…
Higher taxes for the rich and crisis winners?
Dusseldorf If Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck has his way, top earners will soon be paying higher taxes. He wants to relieve middle and small…
An “excess profit tax” punishes brave investors
Protest action against oil company Shell Should the mineral oil companies be asked to pay? (Photo: dpa) In politics, there are calls for a so-called “excess profit tax” to skim…