Overview
- The advisory council delivered its annual report on 12 November, triggering an eight-week window for a formal government response.
- The experts propose replacing repeatable personal allowances with a one-time lifetime allowance, suggested at about €1 million for close relatives.
- They call for sharply cutting preferential treatment for company assets under €26 million while allowing generous tax deferrals to prevent liquidity strains.
- Influential SPD factions had already floated similar ideas in late October, signaling receptivity to curbing privileges and considering a lifetime allowance.
- CSU leader Markus Söder rejects any increase in inheritance taxation and has suggested shifting the tax to state control, as internal council views also diverge between Achim Truger and Veronika Grimm.