The retail sector in particular is suffering from the Corona crisis.
Online shipping, on the other hand, is booming.
The Union is now planning a package tax for online houses.
According to
a paper, the
Union
parliamentary group
plans a
parcel delivery
for online trading.
This is supposed to be the imbalance compared to stationary
retail
be eliminated.
Approval comes from the
SPD
.
The
FDP
describes the levy as a "new bureaucracy monster"
Berlin - The
retail trade
in the inner cities has been struggling for a long time, the shutdowns due to the
corona virus
give some shops the rest. The CDU / CSU parliamentary group is now considering a levy that will relieve the local shops - but
obliges
online trading
.
Specifically, it is about a financial
package fee
for online trading.
The dealers on the Internet should collect the tax and pay it to the tax office, reports the German press agency.
She has a paper that the local political spokesman Christian Haase and the parliamentary group vice-president Andreas Jung (both CDU *) have signed.
How high the tax is should be based on the
order value
.
Whether this would make goods ordered on the Internet more expensive depends on the providers.
“With the income from this, online retailing will share in the costs of the communal infrastructures it uses.
This eliminates the
imbalance in
relation to the stationary retail trade, which already today
contributes significantly to the community budget
with its
taxes
”, according to the dpa, according to the catalog of demands.
The income from the new fee should immediately relieve the local retail trade: "The funds will therefore be used in full to strengthen a diverse retail trade in lively
inner cities
, none of which remains in the federal treasury," suggest the CDU politicians.
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Online retail is benefiting in particular from the corona pandemic, as shops have to close and people prefer to stay at home.
© Jan Woitas / zb / dpa
Tax on parcels from online retailing: “Innenstadtfond” is intended to support retailers
First, Die
Welt
reported on the project
on Sunday
.
Accordingly, a
“city center fund”
is to be set up for lively stationary retail
, into which tax money and the levy for online trading are to flow.
The German
Trade Association
(HDE) has already positioned itself: It is against the levy.
In relation to international online trade, it is above all about fair
competition
.
"This does not require new taxes on parcels, but better controls to ensure that our local regulations for product safety and tax payments are also complied with for deliveries from the Far East," said HDE Managing Director Stefan Genth on Sunday of the dpa.
"A
package tax
would also
affect
many domestic online retailers who are correct and punctual taxpayers," argued Genth. "In addition, that would be a disservice to the third of stationary retailers who have built up an online business.
"The future of retail lies in the combination of online and stationary on-site," summarized Genth.
It doesn't help to pit the sales channels against each other.
Criticism of parcel tax: FDP calls online trading fee "new bureaucracy monster"
For the opposition
FDP
, a package tax would be “a new bureaucracy monster”.
Rather, it is more important to give retail "a clear and reliable opening perspective for the next year," said FDP parliamentary group vice-president
Michael Theurer,
according to dpa.
During the shutdown, all retailers nationwide should be allowed to pick up goods, he demanded instead.
If the #GroKo thinks of something, it will be a new tax.
#Package tax
- Michael Theurer (@EUTheurer) December 20, 2020
For the
SPD
, parliamentary group vice-president Achim Post commented positively on the union proposal: "A kind of corona levy from online retailers like Amazon can be a building block for more
justice
in the crisis and provide concrete support for local retailers." -Handels could “not be a substitute for a fundamentally fairer taxation of the Internet giants”.
Corona aid: installments should be paid out in January
Shops that have to
close temporarily
due to the
corona pandemic
should, according to the paper, be helped with more generous bridging aid, quick loans and tax breaks.
At the press conference on the current Corona resolutions, Finance Minister
Olaf Scholz
(SPD *) announced new "extensive assistance".
This is about the so-called "
Bridging Aid III
" and, for example, options for writing off goods.
According to the Federal Ministry of Economics, the
advance payments
for the December
aid should flow
from the beginning of
January
, the first advance payments for the "Bridging Aid III" in the course of January.
(dpa / cibo) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital network.
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