Overview

• Bavaria’s tax offices collected more than €140 billion in fiscal 2024, including €3.26 billion secured by audits and investigations.
• Under shared-tax arrangements only €57.3 billion of those revenues remained in the state budget.
• The Elster platform reached over 22 million active accounts and facilitated more than 83% of income tax filings in 2024.
• Roughly 18,000 employees work across 76 tax offices and 24 branch offices to manage the state’s tax administration.
• In response to growing case backlogs and complex tax laws, the ministry is recruiting additional staff and deploying AI-driven tools to modernize processes.