Regulatory audits
Report: trend towards fewer tax examinations in companies
Does the state escape money because the tax returns are rarely checked? A report submits numbers.
According to a report by the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, the number of tax exams in companies has decreased sharply in the past ten years. A survey by the newspaper in the 16 federal states showed that the number of almost 60 percent had recently dropped to around 140,000.
In total, the tax authorities employed 12,359 auditors in 2024, almost ten percent less than in 2015. According to the report, the sum of the tax payments that are collected in the course of the controls also decreases in the long -term average.
Basically, additional examiners generate many times in income, caused by their attitude.
The Federal Ministry of Finance had recently officially announced in October 2024 that 1.7 percent of the companies or 146,516 had been examined the previous year. In large companies, however, the quota was significantly higher at 17.8 percent.
A shortage of skilled workers and effort for property tax as justification
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According to the report, the federal states justified the negative development with a shortage of skilled workers. At the same time, the testing would be increasingly complicated and time -consuming, and many inspectors have recently had to help out on other projects such as the reform of property tax.
Anne Brorhilker, former prosecutor and now managing director of the Finanzwende initiative, criticized the trend in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “If you want to strengthen our constitutional state and thus also our democracy, you have to strengthen the tax authorities significantly and structurally. Everything else is negligent.” If the countries are unable to hire sufficient personnel, the federal government must help out.
dpa
Source: Stern
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