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Booming border trade on the Danish - Germans border, will cost jobs in Denmark

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The booming border trade between Denmark and Germany has emerged as a hot political issue in Denmark. Danes have been flocking to shops in Southern German border to buy their essentials there fore they are cheaper than in Denmark.

Politicians have battled about whether cross-border shopping is a problem and what could be blamed on the increase. It comes at a time when Denmark, which used to be the place where other people used to go and buy are now heading out to buy stuff.

In Denmark, the bourgeois political bloc has an obvious answer as to why the Danes are shopping more abroad: the government's new taxes on fat, tobacco, soft drinks and beer. These are the direct reasons why of the Danes are seeking those goods in German stores where there have not been such taxes, according to the politicians.

The Danish Tax Department estimates that the Danes will spend Dkr10.5 billion south of the border this year.

The Social Democratic-led the government pushed forward the so-called fat tax on public health issue. The Danes eat too much fatty food, the government blamed. There are also plans for a sugar tax. The opposition, however, will do what it can for the sugar tax to end up in the trash.

"Cross-border trade was declining for a number of years when we were in government. Now it is increasing strongly again. It is deeply troubling," says Ellen Trane Nörby, political spokesperson for the Danish Liberal Party.

The Liberals want that the fat tax should be abolished and the sugar tax scrapped.
The view is that the sugar levy the government voted together with some opposition parties will only make the pain worse.
by Scancomark.se Team

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