The solidarity surcharge divides – society, the Bundestag and now also the coalition.
After the expiry of the Solidarity Pact II, the special phase of reconstruction in the East was clearly over, and as Federal Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz decided against completely abolishing the tax surcharge.
A special sacrifice will thus continue to be demanded from a small proportion of those who pay income tax.
The solo also lives on in the context of corporation tax and the withholding tax.
The head of the tax department from Scholz left the ministry at the time – he prefers to fight with the taxpayers’ association for the complete abolition of the Soli.
The FDP has been talking about this for a long time.
The Soli-Aus was not enforceable in the traffic light.
Now the liberal Finance Minister Christian Lindner has decided that his house will withdraw from the proceedings before the Federal Fiscal Court.
He coolly revises his predecessor's order – and thereby snubs his chancellor.
The tax surcharge is always a source of controversy.
This also speaks for its termination.