Germany’s Economic Model Is Broken: Ingolstadt’s €100M Hole Exposes Every Auto Town
Ingolstadt’s mayor Christian Scharpf is looking for €100 million he no longer has. The Bavarian city of 140,000 — Germany’s second richest by GDP per capita — collected over €100 million a year in corporate trade tax from Audi and its parent Volkswagen. That revenue vanished over the past year. Audi reported a 91 percent ...












