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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - The new employer president Rainer Dulger is demanding reforms instead of tax increases from the federal government in order to finance the costs of the corona crisis.
"Reforms for economic dynamism bring higher tax revenues without tax rates having to rise," said Dulger of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ / Friday).
"As long as this path is not taken, there is no basis for tax increases."
He sees with concern that on the way to the election year 2021 - unlike after the financial crisis in 2009 - "this time a political competition is looming over which and how strong tax increases there should be soon," said Dulger.
But this will not create any economic dynamism.
"It is more likely to choke off the hoped-for upswing."
For example, the minister-presidents of the SPD-ruled states brought a corona solidarity surcharge into play in their draft resolution for the federal-state round on Wednesday.
As a result, the costs caused by the pandemic in the health care system would not have to be cushioned unilaterally by the legally insured, it said.
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Dulger defended the billions in government aid: "I acknowledge that we - companies and employees - receive a lot of government aid in these special times."
This is “appropriate and effective”, even if “not a pure market economy”, he told the FAZ.
It is all the more important to return quickly to market economy policy.
"Strong companies that can offer as many people as possible secure jobs ensure that in the end a lot of money goes into the public purse through taxes and social contributions."
After eight years at the helm of the Gesamtmetall employers 'association, Dulger was elected the new President of the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations (BDA) on Thursday.