Tax revenue from pensioners has doubled since 2005

While the number of taxable retirees has increased by about 50 % since 2005, the tax revenue paid by these retirees has more than doubled over the same period.

The tax revenue of taxpayers with pension income more than doubled from 2005 to 2014. As the German government reported in response to a question from the Bundestag, pensioners paid around 16 billion euros in income tax and solidarity surcharge in 2005. By 2014, this figure had risen to around 33 billion euros. The number of tax cases with pension income grew from around 5.1 to 7.8 million during this period. By contrast, the number of all pension recipients only rose from 20.0 to 20.6 million people in the same period.