hundreds of thousands of senior citizens in Germany have to pay income tax. A glance at the Figures shows that From a “pensioners Schröpfung” can’t be, according to experts.
“the state conceded a pensioner!“, it says in the headline on the front page of the “IMAGE”. It is a topic of attention, not only among pensioners in Germany. Places the burden on the state seniors unjust burdens?
the basis of the message is, among other things, the response of the Federal government to a request from the FDP to the pensioners ‘ taxation. Fresh the Pay-work is not: The data are available in the Ministry of Finance “because of the deadlines for the submission of the tax Declaration and the duration of the necessary Work for the creation of statistics” only to 2014.
In fact, have paid in that year, 4.4 million of the 21 million pensioners in Germany, around 33 billion euros in income tax and the solidarity surcharge. The total sum is increasing over the years. Total government revenue from wage – and income amounted to a tax in 2014 to 260 billion euros.
