Protest week in Baden-Württemberg: Demonstrations against tax plans!
Protest week in Baden-Württemberg: Demonstrations against tax plans!
From February 10th to 14th, 2025, a demonstration train lasts several days in Baden-Württemberg, which was launched with a clear goal: the protesters want to draw attention to the planned tax increases. Organizers expect 200 to 300 participants who accompany the entire path through the cities. The train starts in Heilbronn on Monday and leads to Stuttgart via Ludwigsburg on Tuesday. On Wednesday it continues through Stuttgart, followed by a march to Böblingen. Thursday is all about the stage from Offenburg to Lahr, and on Friday the protest will be completed with an elevator in Freiburg.
traffic disruptions are to be expected in the urban areas, while the demonstrators draw attention to their concerns. This is particularly important against the background of current political decisions of the traffic light coalition, which also wants to introduce a vehicle tax for tractors and combine harvesters. These changes are part of a broad policy that also includes the abolition of existing tax prices for agricultural vehicles. These developments have alerted many farmers who have to expect the financial consequences of the upcoming measures.
current protests and their causes
In addition to the demonstration in Baden-Württemberg, there was recently a large protest in Stuttgart, in which 160 vehicles, including tractors, trucks and cars, drove through the city center. This train caused traffic disruptions, but according to the police spokesman there was a lot of traffic chaos. The start and end point was the Cannstatter Wasen, with the demonstration ending on Saturday afternoon without incident. In other federal states, such as Bavaria and Berlin, similar demonstrations took place in which farmers protested against the plans of the traffic light coalition to delete the tax benefits in the agrardiesel.Nina Warken, Secretary General of the Southwest CDU, warned that this could endanger the competitiveness of Baden-Württemberg agriculture for the agrardiesel. The German Farmers' Association is also planning a protest event that is scheduled to take place in Berlin on Monday. Here, farmers not only want to draw attention to the vehicle tax, but also to the planned deletions in the agricultural budget 2024, which affect Agrardiesel aid and the motor vehicle tax exemption for agricultural vehicles.
warnings of catastrophic consequences
The effects of these political decisions could be serious: According to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, the loss of income due to the planned measures is around 900 million euros. The farms would therefore be faced with an additional financial burden in the same amount. Eco -farms in particular that rely on mechanical tillage are affected by the changes. The Thuringian Farmers' Association described the unilateral decisions of the government as "devastating" and "short -sighted".
The agricultural associations also warn of a possible decline in the competitiveness of the competitiveness of German agricultural companies and the relocation of production facilities abroad. The DBV President Joachim Rukwied therefore demands that the plans can withdraw and threatens with further resistance, while Professor Sebastian Lakner criticizes the diesel oil discount as "meaningless". The coming days in Baden-Württemberg will show how vehemently farmers will occur for their concerns in order to avert the planned changes.
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