Increase in property transfer tax in NRW

It was generally about taxes, you should be able to have understood that. As for the rest of the nonsense, I at least have doubts.

It would make sense to massively reduce or even eliminate the real estate transfer tax for the purchase of a property for personal use. Five percent and more is simply an insane amount of money in connection with real estate.

Well, most people only pay property transfer tax once or twice in their lives, if at all. Therefore, raising it hardly scares away any voters.

Well, most people only pay real estate transfer tax once or twice in their lives, if at all. Thus, hardly any voters are driven away by an increase.

The fact is also that it usually concerns people with corresponding income. It doesn't affect the poor, society bears it.. :confused:

The fact is also that these are usually people with corresponding incomes. It doesn’t affect the poor, society tolerates it.. :confused:

That may be true. However, once again, the person who acts responsibly and proactively and builds their own home (also as security for retirement) and forgoes short-term consumption is basically punished with an additional tax, which I find not really logically explainable.

I can understand development contributions, VAT for the building project, and if necessary also property tax – but why the state hits private individuals so hard when acquiring real estate (it has already been mentioned how it works for companies) is absolutely incomprehensible to me.

On the other hand, anyone who lives carefree day by day and neither saves nor builds up anything can rely on the social safety net to catch them if necessary.

In my opinion, there is something fundamentally wrong in our state.

Best regards,

Dirk

The fact is also that these are usually people with corresponding income. It doesn’t affect the poor, society tolerates it.. :confused:

There may be people who don’t know what to do with their money and buy real estate for the fun of it. But very often the case is that quite ordinary average people simply want to have their own place. Something completely normal, natural. Their own cave, without paying rent to someone who for whatever reason calls a house his property, which he doesn’t even need to live in. And these average homeowners (by no means all high earners) also have to bear this heavy burden.

(Yes, low earners are usually not directly affected, I admit that.)