The state can expect additional revenue of around 110 billion euros

Berlin Despite the economic downturn, the state can expect significantly higher tax revenues over the next five years. Compared to the tax estimate from May, the federal, state and local governments can calculate around 110 billion euros more over the forecast period from 2022 to 2026. This emerges from the estimate templates for the meeting of the working group of tax estimators that begins this Tuesday, the Handelsblatt learned from government, coalition and estimator circles.

The figures from the tax estimators are awaited with particular excitement this time. Because they provide information about the extent to which the energy crisis is affecting the state budget, how capable the state is of acting in times of crisis and how the financial situation will develop.

This question has recently had some political explosiveness. The federal government and the federal states recently fought a bitter dispute over the financing of the third relief package.