Spring Budget 2025
The Spring Budget includes adjustments to the 2025 budget as well as a preview of the budgets for the coming years. We've listed the key points with regard to tax below.
Spring Budget 2025
The coalition has reached an agreement on the Spring Budget. What does this mean for your business? Below, we've outlined the main measures that could affect your operations:
- VAT and excise duty: no increases for culture, sports, media, dairy, soy drinks and alcohol.
- Rental market and energy tax: social rents remain unchanged, housing benefit increases, €200 million earmarked for lowering energy tax.
- Wages, unemployment benefit, childcare and disability: youth minimum wage rises, tax-free anniversary bonus remains, shorter unemployment benefit duration, no cutbacks on childcare, reform of the Disability Insurance Act.
- Defence and asylum: €1.1 billion for defence, €900 million for asylum costs.
- Legal aid and municipalities: €30 million extra for social legal aid, billions for municipalities.
- Nitrogen, climate and infrastructure: €600 million for tackling nitrogen issues and supporting farmers, funding for the Nedersaksen railway line.
We're right beside you
as specialists with a human touch
The measures announced in the Spring Budget are still only proposals. They must first be incorporated into draft legislation, which then has to be approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Our advisers will gladly provide tailored advice based on your specific situation. We're right beside you as your account and adviser, and as specialists with a human touch.
Let's go for it together
