In 2022, Bremen had by far the slowest tax offices in Germany. This is the result of data collection by the leading online tax filing system, Lohnsteuer-kompakt.de. For the second time in a row, Berlin finished first with the fastest tax offices in Germany.
On average, taxpayers in Berlin had to wait 45.8 days for their tax refund, in Hamburg the waiting time was around one day longer at 46.7 days. North Rhine-Westphalia comes in third with a waiting time of 47.5 days, two places higher than last year when the region was fifth.
While residents of the federal capital Berlin get their tax assessments particularly quickly, taxpayers in neighboring Brandenburg have to wait another 27 days for their tax refunds, which is almost a full month longer.
“It is surprising that, like last year, two city-states occupy the top two places,” says Felix Bodeewes, managing director of Lohnsteuer-kompakt.de. “But North Rhine-Westphalia has recovered well, while Saarland have dropped from third place last year to tenth place,” said Bodeewes. “After all, six of the ten fastest tax offices in Germany are in North Rhine-Westphalia.”
The fastest tax office in Germany is the Olpe Tax Office with an average processing time of only 23.6 days. Last year’s winner, Warburg, only finished in 89th place this year with 43.3 days.
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Taxpayers in Bremen (82.1 days), Brandenburg (72.8 days) and Baden-Württemberg (60.5 days) have to wait longer for a possible tax refund. This means that taxpayers in these three federal states have to wait at least 15 days longer than in Berlin.
“Overall, individual tax offices’ processing times have gotten slower,” says Felix Bodeewes. “In the previous year, Bremen already had the longest processing times with 56.3 days, almost 26 days less than in 2022.” The national average is 53.6 days and is therefore 4.6 days more than the previous year.
The processing times of the tax offices were recorded anonymously on the basis of around 400,000 tax returns filed via Lohnsteuer-kompakt.de in 2022. A total of 479 tax offices were taken into consideration, with at least 50 tax returns filed for the tax office.
Upon request, journalists receive an overview of the processing times of the individual tax offices sorted by federal state. The data is free of publication with indication of the source: www.lohnsteuer-kompakt.de.
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Toponyms of the Revenue Offices considered:
Amberg, Amorbach, Angermünde, Annaberg, Ansbach, Arnsberg, Aschaffenburg, Augsburg-Land, Augsburg-Stadt, Aurich-Wittmund, Backnang, Bad Bentheim, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Bad Kissingen, Bad Kötzting, Bad Kreuznach, Bad Mergentheim, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Bad Neustadt adS, Bad Säckingen, Bad Saulgau, Bad Segeberg, Bad Tölz, Bad Urach, Baden-Baden, Balingen, Bamberg, Bautzen, Bayreuth, Beckum, Bensheim, Berchtesgaden-Laufen, Bergheim, Bergisch Gladbach, Biberach, Biedenkopf, outskirts of Bielefeld, center of Bielefeld, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bingen-Alzey, Bitburg-Prüm, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Böblingen, Bochum-Mitte, Bochum-Süd, Bonn-outside of the city, Bonn-center, Borken, Bottrop, Brandenburg , Braunschweig -Altewiekring, Braunschweig-Wilhelmstraße, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Brilon, Bruchsal, Brühl, Buchholz in der Nordheide, Bühl, Bünde, Burgdorf, Burghausen, Calau, Calw, Celle, Cham, Charlottenburg, Chemnitz-Mitte, Chemnitz-Süd, Cloppenburg , Coburg, Coesfeld, Cottbus, Crailsheim, Cuxhaven, Dachau, DArmstadt, Deggendorf, Delmenhorst, Dessau-Roßlau, Detmold, Dieburg, Dillenburg, Dillingen, Dingolfing, Dinslaken, Dithmarschen, Döbeln, Donaueschingen, Donauwörth, Dortmund-Hörde, Dortmund-East, Dortmund-Unna, Dortmund-West, Dresden-North, Dresden-South, Duisburg-Hamborn, Duisburg-South, Duisburg-West, Düren, Düsseldorf-Altstadt, Düsseldorf-Mettmann, Düsseldorf-Mitte, Düsseldorf-North, Düsseldorf-Süd, Ebern, Ebersberg, Eberswalde, Eckernförde-Schleswig, Eggenfelden, Ehingen, Eichstätt, Eilenburg, Eisenach, Eisleben, Elmshorn, Emden-North, Emmendingen, Erding, Erfurt, Erkelenz, Erlangen, Essen-NordOst, Essen-Süd, Esslingen, Ettlingen, Euskirchen, Flensburg, Forchheim, Frankfurt Oder, Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Freiburg-Land, Freiburg-City, Freising, Freudenstadt, Friedberg (Hesse), Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Fulda, Fürstenfeldbruck, Fürth, Füssen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Geilenkirchen, Geislingen, Geldern, Gelnhausen, Gelsenkirchen, Genthin, Gera, Giessen, Gifhorn, Göppin gen, Görlitz, Goslar-Bad Gandersheim, Gotha, Göttingen, Grafenau, Greifswald, Grevenbroich, Grimma, Groß-Gerau, Gummersbach, Günzburg, Gunzenhausen, Güstrow, Gütersloh, Hagen, Hagenow, Haldensleben, Halle (Saale), Hamburg-Altona , Hamburg-Am Tierpark, Hamburg-Barmbek-Uhlenhorst, Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, Hamburg-Hansa, Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg-North, Hamburg-Oberalster, Hamburg-East, Hamelin, Hamm, Hanau, Hannover-Land, Hannover -Mitte, Hannover-Nord, Hannover-Sud, Hattingen, Heidelberg, Heidenheim, Heilbronn, Helmstedt, Herford, Herne, Hersbruck, Hilden, Hildesheim-Alfeld, Höchst, Hof, Hofheim am Taunus, Holzminden, Homburg, Höxter, Hoyerswerda, Ibbenbüren , Idar-Oberstein, Ilmenau, Ingolstadt, Iserlohn, Itzehoe, Jena, Jülich, Kaiserslautern, Kamp-Lintfort, Karlsruhe-Durlach, Karlsruhe-City, Kassel, Kaufbeuren, Kehl, Kelheim, Kempen, Kempten-Immenstadt, Kiel, Kirchheim, Kitzingen, Kleve, Koblenz, Cologne-Altstadt, Cologne-Mitte, Cologne-North, Cologne-East, Cologne-Porz, Cologne-South, Cologne-West, König s Wusterhausen, Constance, Krefeld, Kronach, Kulmbach, Kusel-Landstuhl, Kyritz, Lahr, Landau, Landsberg am Lech, Landshut, Langen, Leer (East Frisia), Leipzig, Lemgo, Leonberg, Leverkusen, Lichtenberg, Lichtenfels, Limburg, Limburg – Weilburg, Lindau, Lingen (Ems), Lippstadt, Löbau, Lohr a. Main, Lörrach, Lübbecke, Lübeck, Luckenwalde, Lüdenscheid, Lüdinghausen, Ludwigsburg, Ludwigshafen, Lüneburg, Magdeburg, Mainz, Mannheim-Neckarstadt, Mannheim-Stadt, Marburg, Marl, Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Mayen, Meissen, Memmingen-Mindelheim, Merseburg, Merzig, Meschede, Miesbach, Minden, Mitte/Tiergarten, Mittweida, Mönchengladbach, Montabaur-Diez, Mosbach, Mühlacker, Mühldorf, Mühlhausen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Müllheim, Munich, Münster-Periphery, Münster-Centre, Nauen, Naumburg , Neu-Ulm, Neubrandenburg, Neuburg, Neuenbürg, Neukölln, Neumarkt idOpf., Neumünster, Neunburg c. W., Neunkirchen, Neuss, Neustadt, Neuwied, Nienburg/Weser, Nordenham, North Frisia, Nördlingen, Northeim-Herzberg am Harz, North Nuremberg, South Nuremberg, Nürtingen, North Oberhausen, South Oberhausen, Obernburg am Main, Oberndorf , Ochsenfurt, Offenburg, Öhringen, Oldenburg, Olpe, Oranienburg, Oschatz, Osnabrück-Land, Osnabrück-Stadt, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Ostholstein, Paderborn, Pankow/Weißensee, Papenburg, Passau, Peine, Pfaffenhofen, Pforzheim, Pinneberg, Pirmasens, Pirna , Plauen, Plön, Pößneck, Potsdam, Prenzlauer Berg, Quakenbrück, Quedlinburg, Rastatt, Ratzeburg, Ravensburg, Recklinghausen, Regensburg, Reinickendorf, Remscheid, Rendsburg, Reutlingen, Ribnitz-Damgarten, Riedlingen, Rosenheim, Rostock, Rotenburg (Wümme), Rottweil , Saarbrücken I , Saarlouis, Salzwedel, Sankt Augustin, Schleiden, Schöneberg, Schorndorf, Schrobenhausen, Schwabach, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Hall, Schwandorf, Schwarzenberg, Schweinfurt, Schwelm, Schwerin, Schwetzingen, Selb, Siegburg, Siegen, Sigmaringen, Simmern-Zell, Singen, Sinsheim, Soest, Solingen, Soltau, Sondershausen, Sonneberg, Spandau, Speyer-Germersheim, Springe, St. Wendel, Stade, Stadthagen, Starnberg, Staßfurt, Steglitz, Steinfurt, Stendal, Stollberg, Stormarn, Stralsund, Straubing, Strausberg, Stuttgart, Suhl, Sulingen, Syke, Tauberbischofsheim, Tempelhof, Titisee-Neustadt, Traunstein, Treptow-Köpenick, Trier, Tübingen, Tuttlingen, Überlingen (Lake Constance), Uelzen -Lüchow, Uffenheim, Ulm, Vechta, Velbert, Verden (All), Viechtach, Viersen, Villingen-Schwenningen, Waiblingen, Waldsassen, Waldshut-Tiengen, Walldürn, Wangen, Warburg, Waren, Warendorf, Wasserburg, Wedding, Weiden idOpf., Weilheim-Schongau, Weinheim, Wesel, Wesermünde, Westerstede , Wiedenbrück, Wiesbaden, Wilhelmshaven, Wilmersdorf, Winsen (Luhe), Wipperfürth, Wismar, Witten, Wittenberg, Wittlich, Wolfach, Wolfenbüttel, Wolfratshausen, Worms-Kirchheimbolanden, Wunsiedel, Wuppertal-Barmen , Wuppertal-Elb erfeld, Würzburg, Zehlendorf, Zeil am Main, Zeven, Zschopau, Z Wickau, Zwiesel
Press contact:
Felix Bodewes
Email: fbo@lohnsteuer-kompakt.de
Telephone: (030) 420246-42
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