Germany Says No Decision to Scrap Tax on Nuclear Fuel

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government hasn’t made a decision to scrap a five-month-old nuclear-fuel tax, though all financial measures connected to Germany’s exit from atomic energy are up for discussion, a spokesman said.

Government spokesman Steffen Seibert declined to confirm a report in the Financial Times Deutschland that Merkel’s coalition may drop the 2.3 billion-euro ($3.2 billion) annual levy to allow energy companies to invest more in renewable sources of power. Horst Seehofer, the leader of Merkel’s Christian Social Union allies, told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he won’t support the levy.