Revenues from inheritance tax tripled since 1991 25. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot In response to a request by the Liberal Democrats the German Goverment today published a report which shows that since the year 1991 tax revenue from gift and inheritance tax has almost tripled. While the revenue was about 1.35 billion Euros back in 1991, it amounted to 3.76 billion Euros in 2006.
There are currently less spin-offs in the German economy 22. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot A joint study by the Centre for European Economic Research and Microsoft Germany showed that in 2006 the number of newly founded companies decreased by 4% in Germany as compared to the previous year. In the high-tech industry, however, the number of business start-ups has stabilized at a low level: there were 17.700 start-ups in …
Germany leading in Europe in terms of patents 21. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot In 2006 about 207.300 patent applications were submitted to the European Patent Office (EPA) which correspondends to a 5% increase as compared to the year 2005 and is a new record high. With 24.900 applications (18.4% of total number of applications) Germany was once again at the top, followed by France with 8010 applications (5.9%) …
New German record trade surplus 20. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to preliminary figures published by the Federal Statistical Office, Germany´s trade surplus which increased by 164.6 billion Euros in 2006 hit a new record high. Thus, on a value basis German exports exceeded imports by 22.5% in 2006.
Compulsary website copies for the National Library under discussion 20. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot As was reported today by the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM), the German government is apparently discussing the introduction of compulsory copies of websites and weblogs for storage in the National Library. According to BITKOM experts such a rule would lead to additional annual costs of about 115 million Euros …
Economic development very dynamic in June 20. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot An optimistic status report was published today by the Federal Ministry for economic affairs.The overall economic development is a sustainable one and continued with remarkable dynamism, says the Ministry. GDP, adjusted for price and season, increased by 0.5% after it had increased by 1.0% in the previous quarter. Thus, over one year GDP, adjusted for …
Sponsorship for innovation has increased by 37 percent 18. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs sponsorship for innovation in small and medium-sized entities looks back on two record years. Since 2005 sponsorship offers for innovative small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) have increased from 415 million to 570 million Euros which corresponds to an increase of 37%, said Mr. Hartmut Schauerte, who is …
There are more and more workaholics among top managers 15. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the »Work-Life-Balance« study which was conducted by the Kienbaum management consultancy in co-operation with the Harvard Businessmanager, 80% of German top managers work more than 50 hours per week. Managers earning more than 200.000 Euros a year even work 60 to 70 hours each week. Thus, this group of German top executives on …
50.5 years is the best age for being managing director 15. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot On average managing directors of German companies are 50.5 years old. This is the finding of a recent survey by Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen which examined the age structure of about 881.000 executives heading companies which are entered in the commercial register. Most managing directors, i.e. 16.9%, are between 40 and 44 years of age, followed by …
One in two executives want the job of their bosses 15. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the »Executive Quiz« survey conducted by Korn/Ferry International, which is an international personnel agency, 73% of all executives believe that they could outperform their bosses. Furthermore, 65% insinuated that they would like to have their bosses’ job.