FPÖ - Hafenecker: Increased commuter allowance must continue after June!

2023-04-22 06:30:21

Fuel is becoming more expensive at the expense of commuters, although crude oil prices are on a downward slide

Vienna (OTS) – “It is completely incomprehensible that diesel and petrol are becoming more and more expensive in Austria, even though crude oil prices are on the decline. Of course, the beneficiaries are the partially state-run OMV and the black Finance Minister Brunner, who is sticking his ‘sticky’ financial fingers deeper and deeper into the taxpayers’ pockets,” said the Liberal General Secretary and FPÖ traffic spokesman NAbg today. Christian Hafenecker, MA.

For a long time, the Liberals have been demanding sustainable measures against the high fuel prices, such as massive reductions in value added tax and mineral oil tax as well as an immediate abolition of the CO2 penalty tax. “The black-green government would have an easy time lowering gas station prices, but seems to be caught up in the green eco-Marxists’ hostility to mobility. The ÖVP sits politically dead on the side of the road to watch the commuters bleed themselves dry financially. The increased commuter allowance only helps to a limited extent, but will expire at the end of June this year. A lapse in the increase will cost an employee with a monthly gross wage of 2,500 euros about 100 euros less on the account,” said the FPÖ traffic spokesman.

As long as fuel prices are so high due to government inaction in the country, the increased commuter flat rate should continue to be granted indefinitely, Hafenecker called for the flat rate to be extended and continued: “It is unacceptable to give the citizen money so outrageously in times of such high inflation out of their pockets, especially by those who rely on their car to get to work. Austrians must not be penalized for driving to work!”