BERLIN, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A German government plan to offer tax incentives to encourage consumers to buy cars fitted with diesel particle filters from 2006 drew criticism on Thursday from state finance ministers, without whose support it will fail.
Bavaria's Kurt Faltlhauser, chairman of Germany's so-called finance ministers council, said if federal Finance Minister Hans Eichel did not present a way to fund the tax breaks they would be blocked by the Bundesrat, the upper house of ...
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