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Hello world, actually we have a very strange discussion in Germany about something called "Pendlerpauschale". This was a tax reduction you could get for the costs of the trip from home to the workplace (0.3Euro/km). It was basically a subsidy for the German car and petro-chemical industry. It helped the urban sprawl and did clearly not reduce our output of carbon dioxide. A few years it was abolished for financial and environmental reasons. Now, with the growing fuel prices, the so called conservative party wants to reintroduce it. And here comes my question: it there a similar subsidy/tax reduction in other countries or is this again one of the many special features of the German tax system? Greetings, Georg