The variety of high earners with an earnings of 1 million euros or extra has continued to rise within the southwest. In 2022, there have been 5,676 earnings millionaires in Baden-Württemberg, in keeping with the State Statistical Office in Fellbach Stuttgart introduced. That was 234 greater than a yr earlier. More present figures weren’t out there. Because of the lengthy deadlines for submitting a tax return, statisticians wait a very long time earlier than evaluating figures on this subject.
The majority of the million-dollar earnings comes from entrepreneurial exercise: for nearly two thirds of these affected, earnings from a enterprise is a very powerful supply of earnings. Less typically, the best earnings comes from conventional employment or freelance work. Since the introduction of the withholding tax, earnings from capital investments resembling shares has been recorded within the Statistics solely partially recorded.
Baden-Baden stays the frontrunner
For each 10,000 taxpayers within the southwest, there have been 9.6 earnings millionaires. The metropolis district of Baden-Baden stays the chief when it comes to the so-called millionaire density with a price of 25. Heidelberg (18.4) and Stuttgart (17.2) adopted in 2022. The lowest density of millionaires is within the Lörrach district at 5.6.
In absolute numbers, the state capital was forward with 576 earnings millionaires. According to the data, this was adopted by the district of Ludwigsburg (280) and the district of Esslingen (251). The Heidenheim district and the Neckar-Odenwald district ranked on the backside with 49 every.
Who pays how a lot tax?
In complete, the tax administration assessed round 57.2 billion euros in wage and earnings tax in 2022 (plus 9.5 %). The group of extraordinarily well-earning individuals accounted for nearly a tenth. However, taxpayers with an annual earnings between 50,000 and 125,000 euros continued to bear the biggest share of tax income: they’d a share of 39.4 % – round 22.5 billion euros in absolute phrases.
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