Press release No. 221 of 12 June 2019
WIESBADEN – 27% (5.8 million people) of the total of 21.2 million people in Germany who received statutory, private and company pension benefits in 2015 had to pay income tax on their pension income. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the total volume of pension benefits amounted to roughly 278 billion euros in 2015. 43.4 billion euros, or 16%, of those pension benefits were actually taxed.
