Germany offers tax breaks for married couples that can amount to up to 18,000 euros a year. But critics say it reinforces financial inequality between men and women and that the more equal the salaries, the less a couple benefits. Helen Whittle explores. ⬇️
has made a new proposal to scrap a 1950s-era tax law which allows generous tax benefits for married couples. Critics have long argued that this practice unfairly benefits traditional heteronormative gender roles — and that the state subsidy for marriage would be better spent elsewhere.
SPD leader Lars Klingbeil has proposed scrapping marital splitting to reallocate money for the recently capped parental allowanceTax benefits from marital splitting can amount to up to €18,000 a year for married couples, according to the German Institute for Economic Research. Single parents and unmarried couples don't benefit at all.
"Subsidies should be allocated to children because they cost money," said Wieland."If a married couple doesn't have children, why should they be treated better than an unmarried couple with children?"Critics have said marital splitting reinforces traditional heteronormative gender roles by making going to work financially unattractive in marriages where one partner earns significantly more than the other — the more equal the salaries, the less a couple benefits.
The system also has the potential to impact the allocation of paid and unpaid work within the family. Women are also more at risk of sliding into poverty in the case of divorce — particularly female pensioners who have made lower pensions contributions.Image: Sascha Steinach/IMAGO
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