Press release No. 483 of 14 October 2020
WIESBADEN – Childcare is far from being available free of charge everywhere in Germany. This is why childcare is also a question of costs to many parents. Based on a new special evaluation of data from the wage and income tax statistics, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that parents paid an annual average of 1,310 euros for childcare in 2017. The results of the wage and income tax statistics are only available some three and a half years after the end of the tax assessment year because of the long time limits set for purposes of tax assessment.