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Germany is considering a new tax to soften the impact of a rapidly ageing society, media reported on Wednesday, as Europe's top economy becomes greyer and its population slumps amid low birth rates. 
  
 Top members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) will propose that Germans over the age of 25 should pay a proportion of their income to mitigate the country's demographic crisis. 
  
 The amount has not been fixed, but officials are mulling a tax of about one percent of income, according to the Die Welt daily. 
  
 "We have to consider the time after 2030 when the baby boomers of the 50s and 60s are retired and costing us more in health and care costs," said Guenter Krings, author of a "position paper" to be discussed in cabinet at the end of April. 
  
 According to Die Welt, the proposal also stresses the importance of policies to improve the birth rate in Germany, currently one of the lowest in Europe. 
  
 The money raised by such a tax would not be paid out to pensioners but would help to prevent an explosion in social-security costs with the number of people of working age dwindling and the number of retirees rising quickly. 
  
 The population of Germany is poised to shrink from about 82 million people today to as little as 65 million by 2060, according to the federal statistics office. ||||| Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have drafted proposals forcing all those over the age of 25 to pay a proportion of their income to cushion Germany against a looming population crisis. 
  
 The German Chancellor's ruling party is seeking extra sources of cash to pay for soaring pensions and bills for social care costs at a time when Germany's "baby boomer" generation is ageing amid a decline in the birth rate. 
  
 The proposals – to be adopted by Chancellor Merkel's party cabinet after the Easter break – have not yet set a figure on the age tax but officials are considering a special levy of about one per cent of income. 
  
 A slump in Germany's population means that as more and more ageing Germans retire there are less and less young workers to replace them as taxpayers to fund generous welfare and pension arrangements. 
  
 Estimates from Germany's federal employment agency, predict that the workforce will be reduced by seven million people by 2025. 
  
 "We have to consider the time after 2030 when the baby boomers of the 50s and 60s are retired and costing us more in health and care costs," said Guenter Krings, who drafted the Christian Democrat "position paper". 
  
 Germany, Europe's biggest economy has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe and its population shortfall has not been offset, as in Britain, by immigration or by policies to encourage large families, as in France. 
  
 The revenues raise from the new tax would not be used to fund pensions but would be used to offset a sudden explosion in social security costs as the number of people of working and taxpaying age dwindles over the next 15 years. 
  
 According to Germany's federal statistics office, the country's population is forecast to decline from 82 million people today to as low as 65 million by 2060. 
  
 The plans will become a battleground in German elections next year amid opposition claims that social security shortfalls have been caused by spending cuts and that the new taxes will cause resentment towards the elderly from younger taxpayers. 
  
 Franz Muentefering, a former German vice-chancellor and social democrat leader, has rejected the tax as unnecessary if social spending is maintained without further austerity cuts to existing expenditure. "Germany does not need a special tax," he said. |||||

Germany, too, is facing a huge spike in retirees, and the government is considering a new tax on younger workers to help pay for their pensions and health benefits, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The measure to be introduced this month is expected to require workers 25 and older to fork over about 1% of their yearly income. "We have to consider the time after 2030 when the baby boomers of the '50s and '60s are retired and costing us more in health and care costs," says legislator Gunter Krings of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats party. Germany faces a particular demographic pinch, notes the Telegraph: Its population is steadily declining, but that's not being offset by immigrants as in other European nations. Meanwhile, about 7 million Germans are expected to age out of the work force by 2025.