Overview
- The auditors recommend refraining from new borrowing and say the state budget should generally operate without credit.
- Personnel expenditures reached €8.3 billion in 2023, and the staffing plan is still considered excessively large.
- The current two-year budget halts headcount growth, yet the elimination of 382 positions is deemed largely symbolic.
- A review of the police service-dog program found 107 active dogs costing about €130,000 annually without needs-based planning, and it urges a fundamental recalculation of allowances.
- Finance Minister Christian Piwarz notes the Basic Law allows debt up to 0.35% of GDP—about €700 million per year for Saxony—though the auditors discourage using this leeway.