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The main department set up for Germany's largest tax scandal, which is currently investigating more than 1.700 suspects. The cum-ex transactions are said to have cost taxpayers an estimated twelve billion euros. Bankers, consultants and stock traders were reimbursed for taxes that no one had ever paid - a dig into the state treasury. Investigations for twelve years Brorhilker investigates...
of almost 90 percent in just five years. In the USA, the Pentagon and security budget has long been in the stratosphere, which knows no measure and no limits. $1,4 trillion of taxpayer money, and the number is rising, is allocated to military and security spending each year (including $900 billion for the Defense Department). 62 cents of every tax dollar paid...
According to media reports, Wissing wants to invest 150 million euros in the German air taxi startup Volocopter - despite the strict austerity program and all warnings. Taxpayers probably bear the risk. The Ministry of Transport actually has to make do with five billion euros less due to the austerity program decided by the federal government at the end of 2023. The red pencil fell...
Russian balances. So Russia has a legitimate claim against us. If we settle these two demands, we can give the money to Ukraine. So the point is that our taxpayers should not pay for the damage that Russia is causing, but Russia should also pay and be held responsible for its actions." Russia had Kallas last week...
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
exposed. According to Economics Minister Bruno Le Maire, the cost of buying back worthless promotions cost the government almost 10 billion euros. The taxpayer has received an official debt mountain of 68,8 billion euros, although many presumed but unknown burdens do not yet appear in the books. German nuclear friends It's almost...
In 2027 it will be approximately twice as expensive as the electricity market price. The British electricity customer or taxpayer pays the difference between the market price and the guaranteed price for nuclear power in 2027. * Farmers | Fossils | Subsidies Farmer blockades and pawn catchers: How parties voted and how they are now expressing themselves The CSU and AfD are trying to use the farmers' protests for their own benefit. Included...
“reference was made to the very significant litigation risk and the reasonable doubts about the enforceability of possible claims”. The ministry is following the recommendation to prevent further damage to taxpayers. At the same time, it emphasized: "Regardless of this, the undisputed political responsibility of former Federal Minister Scheuer remains."... IMHO "One crow doesn't look at another...
according to a sophisticated plan to redistribute tax money from the bottom up. More specifically, money flows from the civilian to the military sector of the economy, from the many taxpayers to the few shareholders in the uranium industry. The "Friends of MiK" in the governments of the nuclear states should finally be honest, reveal the true costs of their nuclear plans and...
to be organized in public hands from the outset: "(…) electricity generation from renewable energies depends heavily on subsidies or high wholesale prices, which means that either taxpayers or consumers pay for the returns of multinational corporations through their energy bills. In a public system the profits would flow back to the general public,"...
probably reversed. Even if the Liberals managed to force the restart of seven shutdown reactors, they would face huge problems - the taxpayer would be asked to pay in the long run. Because when it comes to nuclear power, state-owned companies all over the world are now on their own. In the case of Europe's nuclear ambitions, it is not just the question of where the...
consist. And there the following applies: If a country does not meet its climate targets in a sector, it has to buy so-called emissions certificates from other countries that have met their targets. This could be expensive for taxpayers. Estimates currently range up to double-digit billions. There could also be fines from the EU, as Germany has to comply with the new law...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
have. A further reduction was made because Diehl admitted the allegations... IMHO a fine of 1,2 million euros! I wonder how much the investigation and trial cost the taxpayer? So the poor Nuremberg gunsmiths actually have to plunder one of their petty cash boxes, what a shame. These oh-so-serious gentlemen of death in their gray suits also have to...
"We're racking our brains over how exactly these gamma rays reach such high energies and what role the sun's magnetic fields play in this phenomenon," the research team admits. * Taxpayers, tax dollars and tax evaders How the rich can evade $XNUMX trillion Alarming study by the Tax Justice Network. Tax fraud by wealthy people and corporations continues unchecked....
Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine
Mayors and federal officials are personally liable if they act with gross negligence - federal ministers are not. The Bundestag could change that. There is great anger over the damage caused to taxpayers by the failed car toll. 243 million euros in damages for the toll consortium. Taxpayer money. Andreas Scheuer's successor as Federal Minister of Transport, Volker Wissing...
free, as studies show... July 6th Our ex-transport minister, Scheuer-Andi from the CSU and his toll debacle: Scheuer-Andi has no regrets The idea of a “foreigner toll” costs taxpayers 243 million euros. Now Andreas Scheuer is probably saying goodbye to politics. What does Andreas Scheuer actually do? In May, the only MP from Passau visited the...
Just at the beginning of this week, a group of eight major municipal utilities such as Munich and Mannheim warned that these quantities of biogas and hydrogen would not be available... * Taxpayers pay for privatization, dividends and debts? Consequence of privatized water management England's largest water supplier is threatened with bankruptcy England's largest water supplier is threatened...
State money continues to destroy the climate. Germany has even become the owner of nuclear power plants. What actually happened to Uniper, the energy stock corporation that was so richly gifted by German taxpayers in 2022 and ultimately virtually nationalized? After all, the federal government spent several billion euros on this a few months ago. In 2016 that was...
Their shareholders earn billions from environmental degradation, but when it comes to cleaning up, the industry likes to pretend that cleaning up isn't their responsibility. The costs are passed on to the taxpayer and those directly affected suffer... Facts that are often denied 1. Only 30 (29) of 193 UN member states operate commercial nuclear reactors, in the EU it is 13 of 27...
Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization
made possible because political initiative and media presence are left to the conservative forces of the right and the extreme right... *** April 7th Slovakia | Mochovce | Taxpayers pay loss | Leag research by the organization Global 2000: Dubious deal with nuclear power The coal company Leag is said to have never bought the electricity generated by the Mochovce nuclear power plant and made a profit from it -...
Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard
$250.000 per customer per bank guaranteed by the FDIC deposit insurance company. But a discussion has broken out in Washington about how the cap could be raised... *** March 20 Taxpayers pay Swiss bank's losses and bonuses Profits privatized, losses transferred The Swiss supervisory authorities have long watched the Credit Suisse crash. Ask for...
