Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

You have to provide your tax identification number everywhere anyway and the data is automatically transmitted to the tax office, so I don’t need to provide anything, the tax office knows about it anyway.

digital is possible, or should be possible. Nobody needs any lemmings checking the documents.

One is happy to finally get new information about construction prices....and receives a multi-page digression on the topic of inheritance tax. A little tip: This is the wrong thread for that.

The whole topic is pointless as long as there are not enough tax auditors.

For those who have enough money, I am talking about the upper 5% region, the poor auditor faces 10 tax advisors who are better and have more experience.

The choice of words is quite ridiculous, sorry.

I understand what you mean, but it’s rather something to cry about. Because the concept totally works when the beast even believes it is mature and free and everything is fine and continues happily munching its hay, and then a few stable rabbits realize that they are all locked up in a stable and actually being exploited, but the dairy cows say, don’t make fools of yourselves, don’t make such a fuss and don’t take away our sake, remember how much more you have than the rabbits in the forest who starve and die of strange diseases. Exaggerated – maybe, but definitely something to cry about.

Roofer (acquaintance of mine) has not yet received the roof tiles ordered at the beginning of April, delivery time unknown. Prices for materials continue to rise.

I am of the opinion that there is already more than enough tax money available; it just needs to be used sensibly and efficiently. With the amount of tax money that is simply wasted and partly spent on rubbish, I can only shake my head. There would be no need for an inheritance tax to properly provide for even the poorest. I will also inherit and have already inherited. Well below the exemption limit, but definitely enough to treat myself to a few extras for the house and to sleep a little more peacefully. Likewise, I will leave something to my children and am happy to make their lives at least a little bit easier financially. What bothers me about the inheritance tax is that (as with everything in life) there are individual cases where I think, "Exactly here, it makes no sense again." Some time ago, there was a report on sternTV about the topic of inheritance tax. I no longer remember the exact facts, but I will try to roughly reproduce it. There was an elderly lady who owns a property (apartment building) in the middle of Munich. It has been in the family for 60 years; hard work was put into acquiring the house back then. Many satisfied tenants live in the building because the lady keeps the rents low to maintain the house and nothing more. She simply enjoys offering families affordable housing in the middle of Munich and does not want to profit from it. Thanks to the skyrocketing prices in Munich, the property is now worth 1.5 million euros. She would like to pass the property on to her granddaughter so that she can continue the property as intended. The problem is, the granddaughter cannot pay the inheritance tax. What will probably happen is this: The granddaughter will likely have to sell the property to some investor. That’s nice for the granddaughter because she will be financially secure, but what will the new owner do?! First, renovate properly and increase the rents. In the end, the tenants will be the only ones who suffer. Of course, one of very few individual cases, but exactly these individual cases bother me because someone who even wants to do something good ends up being punished for it.