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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

Date: August 4, 2023 Economic activity of German multinational enterprises, 2021, in Germany and worldwide

...This includes, among other things, consolidated turnover of 750 million euros or more. As regards Germany, the statistics contain only enterprise groups that are located, or whose management is located, in Germany. The interactive maps below contain information on the economic activity performed by German multinational enterprises in Germany and worldwide. ...

Date: August 2, 2024 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

Date: August 2, 2024 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

Date: August 2, 2024 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

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 business establishment was the main source of income for 15,900 (58%) of these taxpayers, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). ...

Press release No. 223 of 31 May 2022 26,300 income millionaires in Germany in 2018

...In 2018, just under 26,300 of all people registered as wage or income tax payers in Germany had an income of at least one million euros. This was an increase of just over 1,500 income millionaires compared with 2017. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that income from a business establishment was the main source of income for 15,500 (59%) of those taxpayers. ...

Press release No. 050 of 8 February 2023 In 2022 the quantity of cigarettes taxed in Germany was down 8.3% year on year

...In 2022,  65.8 billion cigarettes were taxed in Germany.The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decrease of 6.0 billion, or 8.3%, compared with 2021. The decrease was markedly larger than in the preceding years (2021: -2.8%; 2020: -1.1%). ...

Press release No. 232 of 18 May 2021 24,700 income millionaires in Germany in 2017

...In 2017, just under 24,700 of all people registered as wage or income tax payers in Germany had an income of at least one million euros. This was an increase of just under 1,900 taxpayers compared with 2016. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the average income of that group was 2.7 million euros. ...

Date: July 14, 2020 Methodological notes on the results

...Do parents with higher income tend to send their children to private schools? How many pensioners pay income tax? How many income millionaires are there in Germany? What amount of donations attracted tax relief? What is the average amount of tax refund? The data of the wage and income tax statistics are also used for fiscal policy purposes, such as dividing up wage tax and distributing the municipal income tax shares. ...