With the planned return of the old VAT rate on natural gas, consumers will once again have to adjust to more expensive heating costs. On request, the comparison portal Verivox reported that the additional burden on households in Saxony would be an average of around 244 euros more per year. At the height of the energy price crisis in October 2022, the German government decided to reduce the VAT rate on natural gas from 19 to 7 percent. The old VAT rate is to apply again from April at the latest.
The average gas price in Saxony was 10.88 cents per kilowatt hour in February. For a single-family home with an annual consumption of 20,000 kilowatt hours, this corresponds to 1275 euros. According to Verivox, the gas price is around five percent above the national average (10.37 cents per kilowatt hour).
Additional costs in the three-digit range
Customers of energy supplier Sachsen Energie will therefore pay around 280 euros more per year for a household of four people or a single-family home with an annual consumption of 20,000 kilowatt hours as a result of the tax increase.
