Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Always this specious argument about income already being taxed. Strangely, this only comes up with inheritance tax.
But it is common practice. You pay VAT, car tax, sparkling wine tax, tobacco tax, mineral oil tax blabliblubb. All from once-taxed income.
So it is completely normal. You can think it's stupid, but it is simply the law.

It's just that you already paid VAT when building the house. And then you're supposed to pay inheritance tax on top of that.
It's like buying a bottle of wine in the store to give as a gift, and the recipient is supposed to pay tax on it again.

I understand the argument, but without inheritance tax, the gap between rich and poor widens even faster than it already does.

It would already be a great gain if the main purpose of taxes were understood… and no, it is not the financing of the state and no, most politicians don’t get it either.

I can no longer hear the multiple taxation “argument.”

I understand the argument, but without inheritance tax, the gap between rich and poor widens even faster than it already does.

I also think that, of all the taxes one can imagine, inheritance tax is rather on the more harmless end. No one has their hard-earned wealth taken away.

I am currently dealing with renting to refugees.

There are guidelines for the amount of rent. On average, the rent may not exceed 6.80 euros cold. Of course, plus additional costs and heating. Who can and wants to economically rent at this price in this environment? And we are talking about Bavaria and BW or also Berlin.

The social heart must be very big for that. Especially with new construction costs of 5000 euros per sqm.
If more than 1 million Ukrainians push onto the already very tight German housing market and rent prices are still to be capped, then no one should complain about the lack of housing.

I found the city of Rottweil as an example. There, the maximum rent accepted by the municipality or job center is 6.74€.
On Ebay Kleinanzeigen, prices start at just under 8 euros and go up to 13 euros.

That just doesn’t work. Heating costs are also capped. For 4 people at 135 euros per month including hot water production. That completely ignores reality at 1.50€ per liter of heating oil.

I also think, of all the taxes one can come up with, inheritance tax is rather on the harmless end. No one has their hard-earned wealth taken away.

I agree. At the other end of the tax-sense spectrum, I always found the progression clause. When my husband came to Germany, he had to declare income he earned and paid taxes on in Australia again here. It wasn’t taxed directly, but it increased our tax rate... o_O