At re­gu­lar in­ter­vals, RSM Eb­ner Stolz, to­ge­ther with Prof. Willi Diez, for­mer head of the In­sti­tute for the Au­to­mo­tive In­dus­try (IFA) at the Nürtin­gen-Geis­lin­gen Uni­ver­sity of Ap­plied Sci­en­ces, ta­kes a close look at the au­to­mo­tive in­dus­try. In this year's study, ‘Au­to­mo­tive in­dus­try in cri­sis mode – Quo va­dis elec­tric mo­bi­lity – the Chi­nese chal­lenge?’, they ask how elec­tric mo­bi­lity will de­ve­lop, what chal­len­ges from China the Eu­ro­pean au­to­mo­tive in­dus­try will have to face and what ac­tion will be nee­ded in the short and me­dium ter

In view of the Corona cri­sis, the Ger­man go­vern­ment in form of the co­ali­tion com­mit­tee agreed on 3 June 2020 on a com­pre­hen­sive eco­no­mic sti­mu­lus and cri­sis ma­nage­ment pa­ckage. One of the tax mea­su­res is the tem­porary re­duc­tion of the VAT rate from 19 % to 16 % and from 7 % to 5 % from 1.7.2020 to 31.12.2020.