Federal budget - Environment Minister criticizes end of e-car subsidy
Thuringia's Environment Minister Bernhard Stengele has criticized key points of the agreement on the federal budget for next year in no uncertain terms. Above all, the abrupt end to state subsidies for electric cars was wrong, said the Green politician in Erfurt on Monday. "You can't do it like that." If he had just bought an electric car and had calculated with the subsidy, "then I would be angry now". As with other points in the budget agreement for 2024, he is less concerned with the content of the resolutions than with the fact that they were hardly predictable for consumers and companies.
As a result of the compromise within the traffic light coalition in Berlin on the 2024 federal budget, the Federal Ministry of Economics surprisingly announced at the weekend that applications for a state purchase premium for electric cars could only be submitted until last Sunday. The premium recently amounted to between 3,000 and 4,500 euros - depending on the purchase price of the car.
Stengele was similarly critical of the planned abolition of tax breaks for agricultural diesel. "That's not right, you can't do it at this level," he said. If this subsidy is to be reduced, then this can only be done gradually. Many agricultural companies would now be hit hard all at once by the planned abolition of the tax privilege.
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Bernhard Stengele, the Environment Minister of Thuringia, expressed his disapproval towards the sudden termination of electric car subsidies in the 2024 federal budget. He mentioned that if he had purchased an electric car based on the subsidy, he would feel angry. Apart from this, Stengele also criticized the proposed abolition of tax breaks for agricultural diesel, stating that it should be phased out gradually to avoid impacting agricultural companies excessively.
Source: www.stern.de
