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The Minister of Climate Protection, Leonore Gewessler, assures that the greening of the tax system will come. The 1-2-3 ticket is scheduled to start in 2021.
“The budget for 2021 is a climate protection budget,” explains Leonore Gewessler on the “Ö1” program “In the Journal to Guest”. More money than ever is being made available for the climate, for example for renewable energy. The Minister of Climate Protection also assured that the announced greening of the tax system will come, although it is not currently foreseen in the 2012 budget.
Green tax reform is coming
The tax system is an important point in the fight against the climate crisis. “We have already taken the first steps, including the passage surcharge, and the next one will follow,” the minister announced. Work is also underway on the standard reform of the consumption tax and Co2 pricing.
The 1-2-3 ticket is your “heart project.” Specifically, the project plans to use public transport for one federal state for one euro a day, two federal states for two euros a day and the whole of Austria for only three euros a day. The third stage will begin in the first half of next year. When the other steps would come, Gewessler couldn’t say exactly. The conversations continue.
Financing for public transportation available
“It is not just a project that is close to my heart, but that of many people in Austria. With the budget we would have cleared the biggest stumbling block,” said the minister. The affordable annual tickets are intended to encourage Austrians to use public transport more.
In the debate over the third runway at Vienna Airport, in view of the crown-related drop in air traffic, Gewessler does not expect it to be built. “I suppose the airport will adapt its plans to a change in behavior,” Gewessler said.
