German finance minister backs plans for wealth tax - Handelsblatt
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is backing plans for a wealth tax his Social Democrats (SPD) plan to introduce, the online edition of business daily Handelsblatt reported on Sunday.Leading members of the SPD, junior partners in the ruling coalition, will meet on Monday to discuss plans to reintroduce the tax, which have developed in a working group led by Thorsten Schaefer-Guembel, who heads the SPD in Hesse state.The plans forecast revenues nationwide of up to 10..