Plan for higher bank taxes | Beginner German Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News
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Today's story: John Healey plans to tax banks in the United Kingdom more heavily.. You will hear it in German first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in German: John Healey will Banken im Vereinigten Königreich stärker besteuern
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:37) More stories today
(01:43) Today's headline, slowly
(02:31) Planning
(03:05) A planned date
(03:41) Changing numbers
(04:23) Today's grammar point
(04:56) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/german/a1/2026-10-16
TODAY'S GERMAN TEXT
John Healey will Banken im Vereinigten Königreich stärker besteuern
John Healey plant eine höhere Zusatzsteuer auf Bankgewinne.
Der Haushalt ist für den 28. Oktober geplant.
Die Regierung will das Defizit senken.
Die Zusatzsteuer könnte von 3 auf 8 Prozent steigen.
Die Maßnahme könnte pro Jahr mehr als 2 Milliarden Pfund bringen.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (planen)
- vocabulary (für)
- vocabulary (Defizit)
- vocabulary (von)
- vocabulary (pro Jahr)
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