CDU and CSU Defend Spouse's Splitting System Amid SPD's Demands for Removal
CDU and CSU representatives have defended the spouse's splitting system, warning of financial consequences if it's abolished. The SPD, however, demands its removal, citing outdated gender roles and employment disadvantages for women.
CDU's financial spokesman, Fritz Güntzler, has stated the Union faction's clear stance on the matter: they stand by the spouse's splitting system. This system, which calculates joint income of married or registered partners and divides it in half for tax purposes, often reduces the tax burden, particularly when there's a significant income disparity between partners.
Güntzler has defended the system, arguing that 'a marriage is a maintenance community, with mutual maintenance obligations. This must be reflected in taxation.' He has criticized the SPD's attempts to enforce changes, stating 'it is unwise to make demands that have not been agreed upon jointly.'
The Federal Constitutional Court has ruled the spouse's splitting system a permissible form of equal treatment in taxation. Martin Huber, CSU General Secretary, has asserted 'there will be no abolition of the spouse's splitting system with the CSU.'
Both CDU and CSU reject the SPD's demands to abolish the spouse's splitting system. They argue that its abolition would make millions of households financially worse off, as stated by Güntzler. Huber sees it as nothing more than a tax increase for families. The SPD, however, views the system as reinforcing outdated gender roles and disadvantages women's employment.
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