37. Other financial and other non-financial liabilities

Key items in the remaining miscellaneous other financial liabilities concern liabilities from the acquisition of non-current assets of €82 million (30/9/2019: €100 million), liabilities from put options of non-controlling shareholders in the amount of €35 million (30/9/2019: €50 million), liabilities to customers of €40 million (30/9/2019: €49 million) as well as liabilities from real estate totalling €5 million (30/9/2019: €2 million).

In addition, the remaining miscellaneous other financial liabilities also include numerous other individual items.

Other tax liabilities include sales tax, land tax, wage and church tax as well as other taxes.

Deferred income includes accrued rental, leasing and interest income.

Contract liabilities are periodic accruals for sales to customers and mainly comprise accruals for advance payments on orders and own customer loyalty programmes. Net sales realised in the reporting period from contract liabilities existing at the beginning of the period amounted to €29 million (30/9/2019: €27 million). Moreover, as part of the sale of the majority stake in METRO China, a licence payment of €153 million received in advance for using the METRO brand is recognised; the income realised from it over the period of use is reported in other operating income. As permitted by 15, no information is provided on remaining benefit obligations with an expected original term of 1 year or less as of 30 September 2020 or 30 September 2019.

Miscellaneous other non-financial liabilities also include advance payments of €120 million (30/9/2019: €0 million) received from former subsidiaries for service capacities that were created in the course of the disposal of the hypermarket business.

 

30/9/20191

30/9/2020

 

 

Remaining term

 

Remaining term

€ million

Total

up to
1 year

over
1 year

Total

up to
1 year

over
1 year

Payroll liabilities

472

472

0

465

465

0

Miscellaneous other financial liabilities

311

256

55

276

259

17

Other financial liabilities

783

728

55

741

724

17

Other tax liabilities

158

158

0

269

269

0

Deferred income

35

10

25

32

8

24

Contract liabilities

35

35

0

193

99

94

Miscellaneous other non-financial liabilities

25

24

1

149

74

75

Other non-financial liabilities

253

228

25

644

451

193

1

Adjustment of previous year due to full retrospective application of IFRS 16 (Leases).

IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards)
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