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According to a newspaper report, the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag plans to use online trading with a parcel tax to support inland cities suffering from the crown crisis. The fee must be collected from the online retailer and paid by him to the tax office, as can be seen in a document signed by local political spokesman Christian Haase and vice chairman of the parliamentary group Andreas Jung, from which the “Welt am Sonntag “.
Whether this makes the products ordered on the Internet more expensive depends on the suppliers. According to the report in the CDU politicians’ policy document, the fee should “be proportional to the order value.”
“None of this remains in the federal treasury.”
According to the information, the rate is part of a “pact for the city center” with which the retail trade, which has been affected by the blockade of the crown, will be supported. To this end, a “city center fund” should be established, which should be fed with tax money, but also with a new fee for online trading.
To justify their move, Haase and Jung write according to “Welt am Sonntag”: “With the revenue, online retailers share the costs of the community infrastructure they use. This eliminates the imbalance in relation to fixed retail trade, which already today contributes significantly to the municipal budget with its taxes ”.
Revenues from the new tariff should immediately relieve local retail: “The funds will therefore be used in full to strengthen a diverse retail business in bustling inland cities,” the newspaper’s newspaper quotes, “nothing of that remains in the federal treasury. ” Additionally, stores that had to close temporarily due to the pandemic should receive more generous bridging aid, quick loans, and tax breaks.
