The CDU, CSU and SPD coalition agreement agreed to reduce electricity tax for everyone to European minimum size and reduce the fees and network fees. Nevertheless, there is also a sentence: “All measures of the coalition agreement are subject to a reservation.”
During the household project, they decided in the office that in network training camps it should be lightweight, part of the electricity price, and customer fees should also be canceled. For the tax on electricity, the reduction of industry, agriculture and forestry was shot- there was no more talk about throttling for everyone.
The Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeal and Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) referred to household restrictions. Electricity tax for private consumers is currently 2.05 cents per kilowatt hour (KWh). The European minimum size is 0.1 cents per kWh.
The head of the CDU and CSU parliamentary group called for a rapid reduction in electricity tax for the European minimum of all companies and all consumers. The article is that the parliamentary ends of the faction in the Rhineland-Palatine Bad Dürkheim decided that in any case it would be necessary to take further steps to relieve in this legislative period and “in any case”-as there is only a financial effect for this. ”
SPD: union sowing discord
This is precisely the problem: the coalition will have to reduce money in another place to further facilitate electricity tax. According to the Federal Ministry of Finance, a reduction in electricity tax will cost about 5.4 billion euros for everything next year. “Perhaps we have record expenses for citizens’ benefits and therefore must postpone other important problems, such as facilitating electricity tax. This is exactly what will be said in the coalition committee, ”said Bavaria Prime Minister Marcus Sede. He described the reduction in electricity tax for industry as the first step. “But we also need complete relief for medium -sized companies, crafts.”
SPD Secretary General Tim Clussendorf said that Sedera: “The Union does what he always criticized traffic lights. If financing for further relief for consumers is found in electricity tax, SPD is immediately. “But CDU and CSU should also have a willingness to priority their own favorite projects,” he said.
