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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. ...

Press release No. N 072 of 20 December 2022 Christmas facts

...Official statistics, however, do not record the number of Christmas trees grown in Germany....

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 Statistical Office (Destatis). ...

Press release No. 042 of 1 February 2023 Slight increase in beer sales in 2022

...In 2022, the beer producing and storing establishments in Germany sold roughly 8.8 billion litres of beer.The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase in beer sales of 2.7%, or 232.6 million litres, compared with 2021. These figures do not include non-alcoholic beers, malt beverages or beer imported from countries outside the European Union (EU)....

Press release No. 185 of 27 May 2020 22,900 income millionaires in Germany in 2016

In 2016, nearly 22,900 of all persons registered as wage or income tax payers in Germany had an income of at least one million euros, which was an increase of just under 1,700 taxpayers compared with 2015. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) …

Press release No. 362 of 29 August 2022 Trade tax revenue at record high in 2021

...The municipalities in Germany received trade tax revenue amounting to roughly 61.1 billion euros in 2021. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this is an increase of approximately 15.8 billion euros, or 34.9%, on the previous year. ...

Press release No. N 033 of 30 May 2022 Number of women dying of lung and bronchial cancer significantly higher than 20 years ago

...A total of 75,500 deaths due to smoking-specific illnesses in 2020 375,200 patients treated in hospital because of relevant diagnoses Every adult in Germany consumed an average of 1,033 cigarettes in 2021 WIESBADEN – Approximately 75,500 people died of smoking-specific illnesses in Germany in 2020. 46,100 of these cases were due to lung, bronchial, laryngeal or tracheal cancer and 29,400 to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). ...

Press release No. 324 of 1 August 2022 Beer sales up 3.8% in the 1^st half of 2022 year on year

...The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the breweries and beer warehouses in Germany sold roughly 4.3 billion litres of beer in the first half of 2022. These figures do not include non-alcoholic beers, malt beverages or beer imported from countries outside the European Union (EU)....

Press release No. 275 of 30 June 2022 More and more pensions are subject to income tax

A total of 21.9 million people in Germany received benefits to the amount of roughly 350 billion euros from statutory, private or company pension schemes in 2021. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was an increase of 0.6%, or …

Press release No. 166 of 13 April 2022 Revenue from aviation tax up 49.8% in 2021 on 2020

...In 2021, a total of 526.4 million euros of aviation tax - also called “flight ticket tax” - was payable in Germany, according to the tax returns of airlines. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that revenue from this tax increased by 175.0 million euros, or 49.8%, compared with a year earlier, but was still less than half (-55.7%) of the revenue recorded in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 crisis....

Press release No. 019 of 14 January 2022 Sales of tobacco products, 2021: fewer cigarettes, markedly more pipe tobacco than a year earlier

...That was an increase of roughly 0.6 billion euros, or 2.0%, compared with 2020. Basic data and long time series are available in table Taxation of tobacco products: Germany, years (73411-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database....