Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius is in the party's internal campaign for the head of the SPD, and has now made in an interview proposals to simplify the tax return, a wealth tax and investments in the billions.
Tax returns could be confirmed by mobile phone short message in the future, said Pistorius the "Rheinische Post". "The idea: Employees who have no other income in addition to the wage income should get prefilled by the tax office, the electronic tax return.The taxpayer must then confirm the data by SMS, that's it."
"Constitutionally compliant, simple property tax"
He also called for a "constitutional, simple wealth tax" and for a € 45 billion investment program - this money should flow annually in "an environmentally sustainable development of education infrastructure, in climate protection and technology promotion".
In this way, Germany should also become the world market leader in green technologies. This includes abolishing the "cover for the promotion of renewable energy": "We can not get out of coal and nuclear energy, but we can not invest heavily in renewable energy."
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SPD: These comrades want to become party leadersPistorius, together with Saxony's Minister of Integration Petra Köpping, stands for the SPD presidency. They are one of a total of eight duos, who dare to lead the Social Democrats from the current survey low.
