AfD on finance and taxes

The AfD wants to push at the federal level for family splitting. Under this model, a family's income would be divided for tax purposes among all members, including the children. This is meant to give families noticeable relief and recognize child-rearing in the tax system.

The AfD wants to change taxes for families. The family's income would be divided among all members. Children would count too. This way families with children pay less tax.

With family splitting, a family's total income is added up and then divided on paper among all members, not just between the two spouses as under today's spousal splitting. The AfD wants to achieve this at the federal level, where tax law is made. The party sees child-rearing as a service to society that has counted too little in tax law so far.

The AfD wants to eliminate the real estate transfer tax on a buyer's first owner-occupied home and gradually lower it for all other purchases. At the federal level it advocates lower taxes and social contributions so that, in its view, work pays off more.

People who buy a house pay a tax. The AfD wants to end this tax for a first home of your own. For everyone else the tax should go down. Other taxes and contributions should also go down across Germany.

According to the program the state's rate is six percent; for other purchases it would fall first to 5.5 percent, by another 0.5 points a year later, and further after that. Self-employed people and companies setting up or expanding are also meant to benefit. Federally, the AfD calls for a much higher basic tax-free allowance, an end to bracket creep and a reform of social contributions with a permanently lower overall rate. It argues that high non-wage labor costs make work more expensive and push companies abroad.

The AfD wants to balance the state budget, keep the debt brake and limit the state to core tasks. It plans a full financial audit, a supplementary budget and cuts to staff positions, commissioner posts and funding programs. It cites an expected deficit of one billion euros from 2028.

The AfD says the state will soon be short of a lot of money. It does not want new debt. The state should spend less and have fewer administrative staff. Ministers and lawmakers should get less pay during this time.

Within one hundred days, an audit would disclose the real budget situation, followed by a supplementary budget and a budget consolidation plan. All ministries and agencies would undergo a task review; duplicate structures and commissioner posts would go, vacated positions would stay unfilled, ministries would be merged, and state regulations and fees cut back. A new anti-corruption commissioner would oversee the government, lawmakers and the administration, and pay for ministers and lawmakers would be reduced as long as the budget shortfall lasts. Pension obligations and investment backlogs would be shown in the budget, and the pension fund invested safely but with a focus on returns.

The AfD wants to make Mecklenburg-Vorpommern a "cash-friendly state." Citizens should be able to decide for themselves whether to pay in cash or by card. A network of savings bank ATMs is to be guaranteed by law.

The AfD wants to protect cash. Everyone should choose: pay with cash or pay by card. The savings banks should have cash machines all over the state. A law should say so.

According to the program, digitalizing public administration must not put either cash payers or users of cashless methods at a disadvantage. The state is meant to take a leading role on this issue. The state's savings bank law is to require that the public savings banks keep enough secure ATMs available across the state. The goal is for both forms of payment to exist side by side on equal terms.