Germany insurance tax revenue, Bundesbank
Germany insurance tax revenue, Bundesbank stood at 1,137.67 EUR million in Jul 2026, according to Deutsche Bundesbank and Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF). It is one of the indicators in the Tax revenue table (Value · Monthly), with a complete series running from Jan 1991 to Jul 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Tax revenue table
| Indicator | 07-2026 | 06-2026 | 05-2026 | 04-2026 | 03-2026 | 02-2026 | 01-2026 | 12-2025 | 11-2025 | 10-2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central government taxes, total | 7,578.13 | 9,477.85 | 8,163.71 | 7,863.49 | 8,299.09 | 11,896.8 | 4,494.03 | 14,180.08 | 7,738.67 | 7,905.49 | |
| Insurance tax | 1,137.67 | 1,095.66 | 1,457.57 | 1,302 | 1,183.88 | 7,118.13 | 1,053.26 | 985.34 | 1,357.79 | 977.46 | |
| Tobacco tax | 1,749.51 | 1,584.57 | 1,297.32 | 1,621.55 | 1,231.56 | 710.7 | 346.38 | 2,294.28 | 1,075.83 | 1,772.44 |
Understanding germany insurance tax revenue, Bundesbank
Dedicated premiums levied on policy contracts form the entirety of this specific fiscal aggregate. The series isolates the transactional taxes paid on property, liability, and life coverage, funneling exclusively into the central government's portion of the Bundesbank tax revenue definition. It separates these specific financial sector withholdings from general consumption duties and direct income deductions tracked in adjacent rows. Contributions for mandatory statutory social security, such as statutory health or unemployment funds, fall entirely outside this scope, as this metric exclusively counts the sovereign duty applied to commercial underwriting agreements.
Evaluating the inflows using a year-on-year framework removes the pronounced calendar effects tied to annual policy renewals. Because a massive concentration of commercial and personal policies reset at the calendar changeover, January intakes overwhelmingly distort period-on-period growth profiles. Analysts observing this metric should distinguish it from standard value-added tax collections, as underwriting contracts are typically exempt from broad consumption taxes but subject to this dedicated premium duty. Retrospective adjustments are historically negligible, though structural step-changes occur whenever statutory duty parameters or exemption thresholds for specific policy classes are permanently altered by federal legislation.
Frequently asked questions
- Are standard social security contributions embedded in these figures?
- Mandatory payroll deductions for state pensions and statutory health coverage are completely excluded from this commercial policy metric.
- Do life and property underwriting agreements face standard consumption levies alongside this tax?
- Commercial coverage contracts are generally exempt from standard value-added duties, facing only the dedicated premium levies measured in this series.
- What causes the massive spikes in collection totals during certain months?
- The concentration of policy renewals and premium payments at the beginning of the calendar year creates severe seasonal distortions.