Revenue Statistics Details of Tax Revenue - Germany
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Contact OECD.RevenueStatistics@oecd.org. Including the subject line 'Revenue Statistics Country Table - Germany', which will help us answer your enquiry more quickly
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Finanzbericht, Bonn; Tax Statistics. Unpublished estimates by the Ministry of Finance.
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Country representatives on the OECD Working Party 2: Tax Policy and Tax Statistics of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs.
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The data for Revenue Statistics 2023 was received and processed in Q3 of 2023.
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The tax revenues for Germany refer to the old Länder until 1990 and to all Germany beginning in 1991.

Heading 1000: In the years up to 2000, the revenues shown take into account the whole amount of non-wastable tax credits including that part paid out by the tax authorities which should, under the OECD criteria, be treated as expenditure. From 2001, the data necessary to make the adjustment have become available and the revenue figures comply with the OECD criteria from that year.

Heading for non-wastable tax credits against 1110 comprise child tax credits (paid out of wage tax revenue), tax credits for owner occupied housing (paid out of assessed income tax revenue), retirement allowance (“Riester allowance”, paid out of wage tax revenue), investment tax credits for unincorporated businesses (for investment in former East Germany; paid out of assessed income tax revenue), research allowance for unincorporated businesses (paid out of assessed income tax revenue) and employee savings allowance.

Heading for non-wastable tax credits against 1210 are investment tax credits for incorporated businesses (for investment in former East Germany; paid out of corporate income tax revenue) and research allowance for incorporated businesses (paid out of corporate income tax revenue).

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From 2002 data are on accrual basis.
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Year ending 31st December.
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Revenue Statistics Details of Tax Revenue - GermanyContact person/organisation
Contact OECD.RevenueStatistics@oecd.org. Including the subject line 'Revenue Statistics Country Table - Germany', which will help us answer your enquiry more quickly
Data source(s) used
Finanzbericht, Bonn; Tax Statistics. Unpublished estimates by the Ministry of Finance.
Direct source
Country representatives on the OECD Working Party 2: Tax Policy and Tax Statistics of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs.
Date last input received
The data for Revenue Statistics 2023 was received and processed in Q3 of 2023.
Unit of measure usedEuroPower code
Million
Variables collected
The tax revenues for Germany refer to the old Länder until 1990 and to all Germany beginning in 1991.

Heading 1000: In the years up to 2000, the revenues shown take into account the whole amount of non-wastable tax credits including that part paid out by the tax authorities which should, under the OECD criteria, be treated as expenditure. From 2001, the data necessary to make the adjustment have become available and the revenue figures comply with the OECD criteria from that year.

Heading for non-wastable tax credits against 1110 comprise child tax credits (paid out of wage tax revenue), tax credits for owner occupied housing (paid out of assessed income tax revenue), retirement allowance (“Riester allowance”, paid out of wage tax revenue), investment tax credits for unincorporated businesses (for investment in former East Germany; paid out of assessed income tax revenue), research allowance for unincorporated businesses (paid out of assessed income tax revenue) and employee savings allowance.

Heading for non-wastable tax credits against 1210 are investment tax credits for incorporated businesses (for investment in former East Germany; paid out of corporate income tax revenue) and research allowance for incorporated businesses (paid out of corporate income tax revenue).

Link to Release calendar
This data is released at the same time as the annual OECD Revenue Statistics publication. The latest edition became available in December 2023.
Revenue Statisticshttps://oe.cd/revenue-statistics
Other data characteristics
From 2002 data are on accrual basis.
Other coverage
Year ending 31st December.
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A summary of the key findings for Germany is available as a downloadable PDF
Key findings: Germanyhttps://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-germany.pdf