Tax places of work course of tax returns per week quicker | EUROtoday

The tax places of work in Germany are processing tax returns a lot quicker once more. In the earlier yr, a mean of 51 days handed between sending the declaration and receiving the discover, experiences WELT AM SONNTAG, citing an analysis of round 400,000 tax returns that had been submitted by way of the web tax portal Lohnsteuer-kompakt.de.

That was a six-day acceleration from 2023, when everybody needed to wait a mean of 57 days. “We have never noticed such a big change – and an improvement at that,” mentioned managing director Felix Bodeewes. Delays attributable to the property tax reform have apparently been resolved.

The Federal Ministry of Finance expects an analogous enchancment. “According to the evaluations of individual countries already known to the BMF, there is a trend improvement in the processing time for income tax returns of around one week for 2024 compared to 2023,” a spokesman instructed WELT AM SONNTAG. This is due, amongst different issues, to “changed work processes and increasing digitalization of business processes in the tax offices”.

The German Tax Union expects additional reductions in processing instances this yr. “In 2025, the average speed will increase significantly again,” mentioned Federal Chairman Florian Köbler. The property tax reform with the 36 million further declarations not slows down the authorities. “All employees can finally concentrate on their core tasks again.” This had already had a optimistic impact within the second half of 2024 and can now even have a optimistic impact in your entire yr of 2025.

In a comparability of the federal states, work was carried out quickest within the Hamburg tax places of work final yr with a mean of 45 days. In Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Berlin it was not more than 47 days. In Brandenburg and Saarland, nonetheless, taxpayers needed to wait a mean of greater than 60 days, and in Bremen nearly 80 days.

All tax places of work nationwide to which a minimum of 50 declarations had been submitted by way of the web portal had been included within the measurement. That was 502. There are a complete of just about 550 tax places of work in Germany.

Karsten Seibel is a enterprise editor in Berlin. Among different issues, he experiences on: family and Tax coverage.