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When it comes to your tax refund, you couldn't be in a better city than Berlin. With an impressive 45.8 days on average for processing tax returns, Berlin is once again showing that efficiency is a top priority, even though it is a tiny bit slower than in the previous year. This is particularly impressive when you consider that the tax burden has certainly not diminished in times of pandemic.
Look who's taking off! Rhineland-Palatinate beat its own best time and, with an improvement of a full five days, is a real model athlete in the tax office marathon. Thuringia, despite a solid time, has to settle for fourth place, which shows that even good performances are sometimes simply not enough for the podium.
Saarland, formerly on the podium, has lost some of its speed this year and is in 13th place. Here you can see that even in the world of tax offices, a year can make a big difference.
Bremen, oh Bremen. Still at the bottom last year and this year... unfortunately no improvement. With an additional delay of 25.8 days, it now takes over 82 days in the Hanseatic city to process tax returns.
Duisburg-Hamborn has shown everyone how to make a comeback. From way back on the list to 131st place — if that's not worth the headlines! Such an improvement of 25.3 days is more than impressive.
North Rhine-Westphalia can be proud of its tax offices in Olpe and Solingen. With processing times that are well below average, they set standards for other offices.
The Cuxhaven tax office has unfortunately lost ground and slipped from a good midfield position to 427th place. An increase of 30.1 days in processing time shows that things sometimes get bumpy.
The Potsdam tax office has broken its own negative record and is now letting taxpayers wait over 105 days for their decision. This is a significant step backwards compared to the previous year.
When we look at the big picture, we have to see that processing times across Germany have slowed down. With an average of 53.6 days, the processing time for tax returns was higher last year than in 2021 with 49 days. But despite the general slowdown, there were some tax offices that stood out particularly positively.
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