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7 March 2022 Advance turnover tax returns 2020: decrease of 3.9% on 2019

Roughly 3 million enterprises in Germany submitted advance turnover tax returns with net turnover totalling 6.5 trillion euros in 2020. Supplies and services (turnover) decreased by 3.9% on 2019 according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The turnover tax advance payments resulting from the turnover reported totalled 173 billion euros in 2020. This was a decrease of 5.1% compared with a year earlier. One reason for the decrease are the turnover tax rates that were reduced from 19% to 16% and from 7% to 5% in the second half of 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

22 June 2020 Concerts, theatre and opera performances: turnover of 8.8 billion euros in 2018

15 March 2019 Billionaire companies generated nearly one third of total turnover

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Assessments: Over 7 million enterprises liable to turnover tax recorded in 2020

19/11/2024 - For the first time, more than 7 million enterprises liable to turnover tax were captured in turnover tax statistics (assessments) for reference year 2020. At 6.78 trillion euros, the supplies and services provided remained clearly below the 7 trillion mark of the previous year, however, dropping by 3.4% compared with a year earlier. The remaining turnover tax fell by 7.1% to 170.57 billion euros. One reason for the decrease was the temporary turnover tax reduction from 19% to 16% and 7% to 5% in the second half of 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Billionaire companies generated more than one third of total turnover

08/03/2024 – In 2022, 800 enterprises reported a turnover of more than one billion euros each in their advance turnover tax returns. The number of enterprises increased by 107 compared with 2021.

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