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Financial markets Act on the Monitoring of Financial Stability (Finanzstabilitätsgesetz)
Date of signature: 28 November 2012
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monthly_report_download April 2019 monthly report
The April edition of the monthly report takes a look at the Tax Act Relating to Brexit which entered into force on 29 March 2019. With the law, the Finance Ministry has taken measures at an early stage to prepare for all conceivable Brexit scenarios. Another article with an international dimension concerns the simplified tax assessment procedure for pensioners living outside Germany who receive …
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monthly_report_download August 2019 monthly report
The August edition of the Finance Ministry’s monthly report highlights three issues that hold significance for international fiscal policy. These include: an international comparison of key types of taxes, an analysis of the International Monetary Fund’s Article IV consultations with Germany this year, and an explanation of the structuring of the European capital markets union.
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Financial markets Combating financial reporting fraud and strengthening controls over financial markets
Listed companies need to be more stringently controlled. On 7 October, the Federal Ministry of Finance presented the federal cabinet with an action plan to combat financial reporting fraud and to strengthen controls over capital and financial markets, which it drafted in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection. Draft legislation will be presented shortly with the …
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monthly_report_download December 2018 monthly report
The last monthly report of 2018 looks back on ten years of “Partnership Deutschland” (PD), the only public consulting company that operates Germany-wide and at all levels of government. PD advises the public sector on projects for innovative, sustainable infrastructure and for the modernisation of administrative processes. The December issue also reports on an interdisciplinary conference on the …
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monthly_report_download December 2019 monthly report
The December edition of the ministry’s monthly report is now online. Every month we publish selected extracts from our monthly report in English. These extracts feature current data and information on federal budget trends, tax revenue, debt levels and guarantees, as well as key dates on the fiscal and economic policy agenda. The monthly report also includes interesting articles on topics within …
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Financial markets Developing the Capital Markets Union
Olaf Scholz, former German Finance Minister, Wopke Hoekstra, Minister of Finance of the Netherlands and Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy and Finance of France, received the “Savings and Sustainable Investment Union” report by the Next Capital Markets Union High-Level Group on 9 October 2019. They thanked the Next CMU Group for their high-quality work and welcome the ambitious recommendations …
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Financial markets Doorstep by Olaf Scholz prior to the G20 finance ministers meeting
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monthly_report_download February 2019 monthly report
In addition to key figures on economic and fiscal conditions in Germany, the February issue of the monthly report contains an article on the German government’s Annual Economic Report. Entitled “Strengthening the social market economy – leveraging potential for growth, boosting competitiveness”, the report was adopted by the federal cabinet on 30 January 2019. The February monthly report …
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Climate action Federal government publishes first allocation report for Green Federal securities
On 20 April 2021, the German government published the first allocation report for its Green Federal securities issued in 2020. The “Green Bond Allocation Report 2020” provides investors with transparent and binding information on expenditures from the federal government’s environmental and climate protection programmes. It lists expenditures recognised as “green” in the 2019 federal budget and …