THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 36, sig. 110-2/12

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113 Central Administration -Budget-1141/43 - Prague, 9 November 1943 S. Concerning: Budget Accounting 1943 - 25 million funds for the consolidation and promotion of the German trade. (Chapter 1, Title 41). 9 On the basis of the provisions of the East Tax Regulation with its important tax advantages, which could not be unilaterally introduced in Protectorate because of the special protection tax right for Deutshhe, who already applied by letter of 4.6.1941 to the Reich Minister of Finance, in the transfer of Jewish and anti-rich enterprises of commercial enterprises (a) the occasional tax burden on the acquisition, which is to be estimated at around 8 to 1 % of the selling price, is to apply to the following categories of German applicants: (b) to grant a grant to the acquirers for the purchase and improvement of the establishment; In contrast, a special approach was provided for in Section XXV and approved for the accounting year 1942 by the Minister of Finance of the Pinanzen in the amount of 3 million RM. In the explanations these funds were already set as a subsidy to the purchase price for worthy German purchasers. The action has not yet come to an end because the Minister of Finance had asked for precise guidelines which, after extensive negotiations with all the parties involved (Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, party liaison office) were sent to the Minister for Finance by letter dated 14.7.1943 - VII e 2200 - 207. Whereas the Minister of Finance, with the intention of granting a subsidy in the amount of the taxes and fees due on the acquisition, has understood that he has recently expressed his concern at the increased subsidies at the purchase price, in particular those for the following groups of purchasers, whose establishment and preferential support is sought in the Protectorate also for reasons of national politics, 4id: 1. Disadvantaged of the present war, entitled German war service victims of the world war, eligible fighters for the national survey and disabled and eligible Spanish fighters,