Household - SPD wants to examine agreement on e-car premium and agricultural diesel
Dirk Wiese, deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group, would like to reopen and renegotiate the budget compromise reached by the coalition leaders in the Bundestag debates. This mainly concerns the abrupt end to the e-car purchase subsidy and the tax relief for agricultural diesel.
"Here, too, we want to take another look because this naturally represents a loss of confidence for many," said Wiese on Deutschlandfunk radio. It is clear: "If we now reverse something with the environmental bonus, or possibly reverse something with agricultural diesel, then it will have to be cut elsewhere. That is the challenge we are now facing."
It is better to phase out the e-car premium
With regard to the e-car premium, he suggested: "I think it would be worth considering whether to phase it out and give those who have already applied for it and factored it into their purchase decision the opportunity to do so."
With regard to the compromise that Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) and Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) had negotiated after weeks of wrangling, the SPD parliamentary group vice-chairman made it clear: "The political agreement is not yet the agreement on the 2024 federal budget. Because the budget is made by the German Bundestag. And that is why we will now look at all the proposals along the way until the 2024 federal budget is finally signed and sealed at the end of January."
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Source: www.stern.de
