German FDP vows to push on with tax cut plan

Germany’s liberal Free Democrats (FDP), junior partner in the centre-right ruling coalition, pledged on the 6 January 2010 to forge ahead with the generous tax cut plans it campaigned on in the federal elections in 2009.

The pledge comes amid increasingly intense wrangling in the ruling CDU/CSU/FDP alliance over the direction of fiscal policy in the coming years.

ESO: Background information: Germany adopts Merkel’s tax cut bill http://www.europeansources.info/record/germany-adopts-merkels-tax-cut-bill/

Deutsche Welle, 6.1.10: Berlin coalition partners lock horns at strategy meetings http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5090736,00.html

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