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Wiesbaden (dpa) - Last year the municipalities in Germany recorded significantly less trade tax receipts and decreases in income tax - but still achieved a financing surplus of almost two billion euros.
This was particularly due to the financial aid from the federal and state governments to compensate for the tax shortfalls caused by the corona pandemic, as the Federal Statistical Office reported on Monday.
In 2019, the municipal surplus was still 5.6 billion euros.
The city-states were not included in the statistics.
This result is made up of municipal core and extra budgets: The core budget surplus amounted to 2.7 billion euros in 2020 compared to 4.5 billion euros in 2019. The extra budgets recorded a funding deficit of around 0 in 2020 , 8 billion euros compared to a surplus of around 1.4 billion euros in 2019.
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The total adjusted revenue of the municipalities was at 295.2 billion euros 4.5 percent higher than in 2019. Tax revenue, however, was 5.7 percent lower last year at 98.4 billion euros.
According to the information, that was six billion euros less than last year.
Trade tax revenues (net) fell by 5.0 billion euros to 37.6 billion euros - a decrease of 11.7 percent.
The municipal share of income tax fell by 1.6 billion euros or 4.1 percent to 38.1 billion euros.
In contrast, the revenue from the municipality's share of sales tax rose by 0.7 billion euros to 8.3 billion euros.
This was 9.5 percent more than in the previous year.
As part of the “Municipal Solidarity Pact 2020”, the federal and state governments offset the trade tax losses caused by the corona pandemic.
The municipalities have booked these payments, half made by the federal government and half by the federal states, as “other general allocations from the state”.
This category recorded 19.3 billion euros last year, 11.4 billion euros more than in 2019.
The total adjusted expenditure of the municipalities and municipal associations increased in 2020 compared to 2019 by 5.9 percent or 16.5 billion euros to 293.2 billion euros.
Expenditures for capital investments rose particularly sharply, namely by 11.7 percent to 38.6 billion euros.
Of these investments, construction measures made up the largest part with 28 billion euros.
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Communication from the Federal Statistical Office