This emerges from an evaluation by the budget service of the National Council at the request of the Greens. They see it as proven that climate protection and social issues are anything but mutually exclusive. In terms of total relief volume, a larger share of the pie goes to men.
According to the analysis available to the APA, the relative increase in disposable household income this year is between 2.7 and 3.0 percent in the first to seventh income deciles. In the deciles above that, the increase is somewhat lower, but is still 1.5 percent in the tenth decile, i.e. the one with the highest income. In the years that followed, the gradual reduction in income tax and the increase in the family bonus primarily relieved the middle and upper income brackets.
The highest income increases in 2025 will be between the third and seventh deciles at 3.3 to 3.6 percent. In the first decile – ie the people with the lowest incomes – the income increase is 2.7 percent and is still higher than for the highest incomes with 2.3 percent.
CO2 pricing and the climate bonus result in a greater relief on average in the lower parts of the income distribution. The (absolute) burden of CO2 pricing is lower there and the income-independent climate bonus leads to a higher (relative) increase in income. In all income brackets, the climate bonus is mostly higher than the burden of CO2 pricing.
For the Green tax spokesman Jakob Schwarz, it is particularly striking that CO2 pricing and the climate bonus together have a progressive distribution effect: while the climate bonus relieves the deciles relatively evenly, the burden of CO2 pricing affects the upper deciles more. Poorer households would be relieved by their ecologically more compatible way of life. Climate protection in particular makes this tax reform particularly fair.
The overall effect of the measures on the disposable income of women and men will be similar from 2023, writes the budget service. The average income increases by around three percent. Overall, however, men account for 61 percent of the net relief volume and women for 39 percent. The higher proportion of men in the overall relief is primarily driven by the reduction in the second and third levels of the income tax rate. For Schwarz, the result shows that there must continue to be a commitment to a fairer distribution of income and equality between men and women.
Source: Nachrichten
