新华网消息：德国总理施罗德29日在内阁会议后宣布，为了刺激经济增长，德国政府将提出一项在今后一年中减税上百亿欧元的计划。
法新社援引施罗德的话说，这项计划有助于刺激经济增长，而且有助于增进社会的公平。
该计划将使德国政府明年的税收减少160到180亿欧元，但德国财政部的专家称减税可以换来1个百分点的经济增长。施罗德说该计划可以使普通工薪阶层明年的所得税减少10％。
减税计划必须经过德国议会的批准才能生效。但在德国议会上院占多数的基督教联盟表示反对，称该计划在经济上风险太高。（谢艳红）NEUHARDENBERG, Germany, June 29 (AFP) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder saidSunday that his government would bring forward a multi-billion-euro tax reliefpackage by a year to 2004 insgroupsto stimulate Germanys ailing economy.He told a news conference at the close of a weekend cabinet seminar that itwas both an important economic stimulus as well as being socially just.The measure will mean a loss to the government of tax revenues worth 16 to18 billion euros (17.5-20.5 billion dollars) next year.However, finance ministry experts claim the package is worth 1.0 percent interms of growth, revitalising an economy that has shown little but stagnationfor the past two years.But the measure must still be approved by parliament, and the oppositionconservative Christian Union, which dominates the upper house, has threatenedto oppose any attempt to bring it forward as economically too risky.The package is the third and final phase of a relief programme under whichthe top rate of tax will be reduced from 48.5 percent currently to 42 percent,and the lowest rate from 19.9 percent to 15 percent.Schroeder said it meant average wage-earners would have to pay 10 percentless income tax next year than they will in 2003. Ten percent less tax means10 percent more consumption.The first phase camesintoseffect in January 2001. The second is due to takeeffect in January next year.The third phase had been scheduled for January 2005 but will now also takeeffect next January if Schroeder manages to push it through parliament.yap-km/sjw（来源：本网）
