Merz rejects windfall profits tax as motorists face higher prices

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2026-09-15

Berlin (dpa) - Chancellor Friedrich Merz sees various options to ease the burden from sharply rising petrol prices in Germany but has ruled out a windfall tax on energy companies, saying both the facts and the law are against this. "I do not see at the moment a sufficient factual basis and also no legal basis for the taxation of so-called excess profits," the German leader said in Berlin. "So we will have to come up with something simpler, someth......

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