How to deal with increasing property tax burden?

Awesome... but it's still "only" about 60 EUR more per month. If this now leads to a catastrophe, then the house actually wasn't really affordable before.

What kind of pathetic statement is that, please? Do you handle all price increases like that? We are talking about a tripling here.

What kind of pathetic statement is that supposed to be? Do you handle all price increases like this? We are talking about a tripling.

But it's neutral for the municipality in terms of revenue, so no problem? That's what's being preached, wasn't that clear to everyone?

And yes, ultimately I accept price increases. What do you think I should do? Sue Kerrygold because the butter now costs three times as much? Or set fire to the cowshed?

How about checking if everything is correct? Maybe the information for the calculation is not right. By the way, for us, the property tax has almost halved.

Personally, I don’t just accept price increases. Why should I? Sure, I can’t lower the price of petrol, and if dairy products get more expensive, I don’t completely give them up. But there are almost always alternatives. Whether it’s insurance, electricity, gas, services, or of course food. It’s always more convenient for companies to pass on the increased costs to customers than to strive for optimizations. That usually only happens when customers leave or threaten to do so.

To stay on the topic of butter: In the future, I will buy the store brand instead of the branded product and/or reduce consumption.

I have received salary increases over the past few years that were significantly above the inflation rate, but if you accept every price increase, in the end nothing remains of it.

Once again, stories from the upper bubble. Raises above the inflation rate, not even IG Metall or BCE get that...

If even high earners turn to private label brands, our economic system will eventually stop working. But we'll talk about that some other time...

Average Joe has been choosing private label brands for years, he might at most still give up butter. But he can just eat pudding instead...

Salary increases above the inflation rate do not even apply to IG Metall or BCE...

Banks: 2024 5.5%
Chemicals: April 2025 4.85%
Textile: 2024 5%
Leather production: 2024 approx. 12.5%
Wood industry: 2024 5%
KfW trade NRW: 8%

I would estimate the average in 2024 to be 4-5%.

The fact is, our money is massively inflating. You can see it in the gold and stock prices. My company shares have more than doubled in 3 years even though we are not performing extremely. I'm curious how long this can continue. Until then, the people are kept afloat with social benefits.