Southwest paid around four billion for other countries in 2021
Created: 2022-01-25 06:37
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It used to be called interstate financial equalization, today financial power equalization.
But the biggest donors remain the same.
After Bayern, the people of Baden-Württemberg have to dig deep into their pockets.
Stuttgart/Berlin - Last year, Baden-Württemberg shouldered almost a quarter of the so-called financial power equalization of the federal states.
After Bavaria, the southwest is still the largest payer country, as can be seen from a list by the federal government that is available to the German Press Agency.
The Free State had to pay almost 1.3 billion euros more than in 2020 and now comes to a good nine billion euros.
That's more than half of the total compensation.
Baden-Württemberg is in second place with four billion euros.
That is another 340 million euros more than in 2020.
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Hesse remains in third place, but has to raise an additional billion euros and is now at a good 3.5 billion euros.
Rhineland-Palatinate, which has to pay 287 million euros, has been added to the donors.
Hamburg remains in the group of payers and contributes 230 million to the compensation.
The system of redistribution from financially strong to poor countries, formerly known as state financial equalization, comprises a good 17.1 billion euros for 2021.
Berlin remains in first place among the eleven recipient countries with 3.6 billion euros.
Saxony is second, with around 3.2 billion euros more than half a billion euros more than in 2020. Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony and Thuringia follow, each with just under two billion euros.
The most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia dropped out of the ranks of donors and instead received 200 million euros last year.
Bavaria paid around 687 euros per inhabitant on a per capita basis.
Baden-Württemberg is in this ranking with 361 euros behind Hesse with 566 euros.
The biggest beneficiary in this calculation is Bremen, with 1233 euros per capita.
Berlin follows with 983 euros per inhabitant and Saxony-Anhalt with 911 euros.
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