The ZEW (Leibnitz institute for European economic research) calculated how the tax plans of all parties would affect the ordinary budget. The CDU would create a hole of over 100b€ per year. Calculated on 10 years it would be 1tr which is the amount of debt Merz wants to take on.
Thank you for the source. Just need to use DeepL for translation. Seems like the CDU tax cut is 89 billion euros but I’m not sure if that is every year or over 10 years (which is the standard accounting rule for government budget).
Do you have a source on that? CDU is talking about 500B debt over 10 year. That’s a lot of tax cuts.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/04/cdus-friedrich-merz-secures-billion-euro-deal-for-germanys-military-and-infrastructure
The ZEW (Leibnitz institute for European economic research) calculated how the tax plans of all parties would affect the ordinary budget. The CDU would create a hole of over 100b€ per year. Calculated on 10 years it would be 1tr which is the amount of debt Merz wants to take on.
Source (it is in German tho): https://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/gutachten/Bundestagswahlprogramme_ZEW_2025.pdf
https://www.merkur.de/wirtschaft/entlastungen-fuer-steuerzahler-tabelle-zeigt-wie-teuer-die-wahlprogramme-von-cdu-und-spd-fuer-deutschland-sind-93473104.html
It’s in German though
Thank you for the source. Just need to use DeepL for translation. Seems like the CDU tax cut is 89 billion euros but I’m not sure if that is every year or over 10 years (which is the standard accounting rule for government budget).
It is 89B € per year in tax cuts. Normal government term is four years…