German Chancellery Halts Draft Bill on Sugar Tax, Sources Say

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The sugar tax should be directed, not above all to flush money into the cash register.

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The next Knatsch in the Merz government! The chancellor drives his vice Klingbeil fully into the parade.

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The draft sugar tax submitted by Federal Minister of Finance Lars Klingbeil has been stopped. According to government officials, the Chancellery vetoed it. As it goes on, it is open. The tax was also part of the health reform.

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The head householder of the SPD parliamentary party, Thorsten Rudolph, warns of new budgetary problems after the closure of the sugar tax plans of Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) by the chancellor's office. The sugar tax is part of an overall package united in the coalition in order to be able to present a constitutional budget, Rudolph told the "Rheinische Post". He can only exhort all those involved to assume their "responsibility for th…