Tag: value added tax
Natural gas tax increase is supported by all ministries
Natural gas is becoming more expensive again Natural gas refinery on the Persian Gulf: The usual VAT rate will be due again in Germany. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to information…
SPD-Left and FDP want to permanently relieve gastronomy
Beer garden in the English Garden in Munich Dehoga fears that the company will die if the VAT rate is increased again. (Photo: picture alliance / SVEN SIMON) Berlin In…
Higher VAT? Advance of the FDP causes trouble in the traffic light
A week later, VAT is actually being discussed in Germany. The reason is a push by the FDP parliamentary group for a fundamental tax reform. In a paper by the…
Why Germany is not making progress in digitization
Desperate woman with paper mess The state demands a lot without creating the digital infrastructure. (Photo: imago stock&people) Berlin For people with their own property, time is running out: At…
Tax revenue up 7 percent
Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin For 2022, tax revenues were slightly above experts’ expectations. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal and state tax revenues increased more significantly last year than experts…
Food prices: Federal Environment Agency insists on value-added tax
Berlin weekly market From the point of view of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), fruit, vegetables and grain should be completely exempt from VAT. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The debate about…
Food prices: Federal Environment Agency insists on value-added tax
Berlin weekly market From the point of view of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), fruit, vegetables and grain should be completely exempt from VAT. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The debate about…
Brussels makes Airbnb & Co. deputy sheriff
Dusseldorf The EU has identified a problem that costs member states billions a year: VAT evasion on short-term rentals. EU Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni estimates the total revenue that the…
What else you can deduct
Residential building with photovoltaic system and solar thermal for heating and hot water The expansion of private photovoltaic systems will be tax-deductible in the future. (Photo: IMAGO/UJ Alexander) Frankfurt For…
Deferral for silver coin dealers with new tax rule
American Eagle Silver coins from other EU countries will in future be taxed more heavily when imported. (Photo: E+/Getty Images) Frankfurt Precious metal dealers breathe easy. The change in the…
Inflation rate in Germany rises to 10.4 percent
gas meter The inflation rate should remain in the double digits – despite the reduction in VAT on gas from October. (Photo: IMAGO/Future Image) Frankfurt The inflation rate in Germany…
Silver coin dealers face additional payments
Frankfurt Shortly before the long holiday weekend of October 3rd, things got hectic among German silver coin dealers. A letter from the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), which was still…
Putin friend wants to use German gas surcharge
Germany has become the full supplier of an energy supplier, who bet in vain on the continuation of the Gazprom monopoly. We are talking about the bursting Düsseldorf colossus Uniper,…
Tax cut on gas: triple error at a price of billions
Chancellor Olaf Scholz It is a noble intention of the federal government not to want to enrich itself from the suffering gas consumers – but the conclusion from this makes…
How fair is the gas levy really?
Dusseldorf The gas surcharge, which will apply from October, is intended to support financially troubled gas importers such as Uniper and secure energy supplies in Germany. In the first half…
Federal government wants to reduce VAT on gas
Berlin In view of the rapid rise in gas prices, the federal government wants to relieve consumers of VAT. In the future, the tax on gas will be seven percent…
Federal government wants to reduce VAT on gas
Berlin The federal government wants to demand a lower VAT rate on natural gas for a limited period. Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Thursday that the tax should be reduced…
When the Chancellor remained silent
it was now the government spokesman. Accordingly, Steffen Hebestreit simply ended the press conference too early, so that the concentrated nonsense of the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas remained in the…
How the traffic light can relieve consumers instead
Dusseldorf Consumers now have to pay VAT on the gas levy that will start in October. Finance Minister Christian Lindner has had the EU Commission examine whether it is possible…
Germany cannot waive value added tax for the gas surcharge
Christian Lindner The Federal Minister of Finance does not receive an exception from Brussels. (Photo: IMAGO/photothek) Brussels, Berlin The EU Commission will probably reject the plans of Finance Minister Christian…