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Date: August 8, 2025 Statistics of pension benefit notifications
Tables on the subject: Number of pension recipients resident in Germany and amounts of benefit, broken down by taxation approach and by size class of the sum of pension benefits
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Date: August 8, 2025 Taxpayers with pension income
Tables on the subject: Taxpayers with pension income, Wage and income tax statistics including pension benefit notifications, 2017 to 2021
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Date: August 8, 2025 Amounts of benefit paid to recipients resident in Germany, taxable portion and average taxable share compared over time
Tables on the subject: Amounts of benefit paid to recipients resident in Germany, taxable portion and average taxable share compared over time
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Date: August 8, 2025 Statistics of pension benefit notifications
Tables on the subject: Number of pension recipients resident in Germany and amounts of benefit, broken down by taxation approach and compared over time
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Date: June 4, 2025 Taxpayers with income mainly from freelance activities of selected occupational groups
Tables on the subject: Taxpayers with income mainly from freelance activities of selected occupational groups
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Date: June 4, 2025 Income taxpayers subject to unlimited tax liability with a total income of 1 million euros and over, by federal state
Tables on the subject: Income taxpayers subject to unlimited tax liability with a total income of 1 million euros and over, by federal state
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Date: June 4, 2025 Share of tax revenue contributed by taxpayers 2021
Tables on the subject: Share of tax revenue contributed by taxpayers 2021
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Date: July 14, 2020 Methodological notes on the results
Income tax is one of the most important sources of public revenue. The data available to the fiscal authorities as part of the taxation procedure provide the basis for wage and income tax statistics. They take into account taxpayers who submitted an …
Press Release
Press release No. 176 of 8 May 2023 Number of income millionaires in Germany up 4.6% in 2019
In 2019, a good 27,400 of all registered wage and income tax payers in Germany had an income of at least one million euros. This equates to an increase of 4.6%, or just under 1,200 additional million-euro earners, compared with 2018. Income from a …
Press Release
Press release No. 513 of 5 December 2022
Donations in 2018: total amount donated up 0.9% on the previous year
In 2018, 11.4 million taxpayers in Germany stated donations of 6.8 billion euros in their tax returns. These were new all-time highs but the level of donations rose only slightly (+0.9%) compared with the previous year, according to the Federal …
