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Erfurt (dpa / th) - After the abolition of road development contributions in Thuringia at the end of 2019, it is still unclear whether there is a hardship fund for people who do not benefit from it.
The state parliament would have to change the Thuringian municipal tax law if it wanted to set up such a fund, said Thuringia's interior state secretary Udo Götze (SPD) in the state parliament in Erfurt on Friday.
"This is where you are asked, a majority decision here in Parliament is required."
The fact that funds are already available in the state budget for such a hardship fund is not enough.
Götze left it open whether the state government endorsed such a fund or not.
He only set out the legal framework for setting up such a fund, he said.
"I did not make a plea here."
Markus Gleichmann, member of the left-wing state parliament, said that, from his point of view, the state parliament had already adequately documented its will to set up such a fund.
Now it is the state government's turn to do this too.
The road development contributions in Thuringia were abolished retrospectively as of January 1, 2019 after years of debate.
"This means that all road expansion measures that have been started by the municipalities since January 1, 2019 and will be carried out in the future will no longer be co-financed by the affected property owners through road expansion contributions," the Interior Ministry said at the time.
If, on the other hand, municipalities had completed road expansion measures between 2015 and 2018, they would still have to collect contributions from the property owners concerned for this work.
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A hardship fund is intended to prevent people who are still subject to contributions due to the statutory regulations from being excessively burdened.
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