Katharina Beck, the financial policy spokesperson for the Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag, has entered the debate on income tax reform. Instead of blanket subsidy cuts, she focuses on closing fairness gaps in the tax system. Specifically, she advocates raising the basic tax-free allowance to relieve low earners.
At the same time, Beck argues for a more moderate increase in taxation on higher incomes than some proposals envision. She did not specify exact percentages or concrete amounts. Her comments come at a time when the traffic-light coalition is deliberating a comprehensive tax reform that also aims to mitigate cold progression.
Beck emphasized that a fairer distribution of the tax burden is more important than blanket cuts in subsidies. The debate on tax reform will continue in the Bundestag in the coming weeks.
Source: www.deutschlandfunk.de
