New property tax 2022 what is coming to us

In a television report, it was said that one must now file an objection against the notice if it is not correct. But how am I supposed to know if it is correct if I do not understand it? And I certainly am not stupid...

Just that alone is already an imposition on the people. You actually have to take action against the basic assessment now to prevent it from becoming legally binding. If the state acted correctly, it could issue the assessments as "provisional" to keep them open.

Here, an unjust regulation was replaced by an even more unjust regulation.

Are there obvious errors in your assessment regarding the type of house, the living area, or the approximate value? Or would you say that it is roughly accurate? Of course, it is pointless to file an objection if you cannot justify it...

I also have doubts about the lawfulness of the remaining useful life. My house is quite new, commissioned in the year 2000. My parents' house is almost 100 years old and at some point probably only demolition remains, because it cannot be economically renovated. They simply form an average value from both houses...

I think that is not correct. In my opinion, each building is assessed separately and then depreciated over 80 years according to the respective year of construction.

The whole property tax issue annoys me a lot anyway, especially since it ties up huge amounts of lifetime. For me it is added that the tax assignments get diluted because my parents as landowners will in the future only have one single property tax number under which my house is then listed. Until now, we had four different property tax numbers. I don't want to eventually have to pay inheritance tax on my self-built and self-financed house because it is attributed to my parents' assets...

If I remember correctly, you had a structure worked out by a tax advisor and a specialist lawyer where the civil law owner is different from the tax owner. From my point of view, it would be especially important now that a tax advisor reviews your assessment again.

I can only really advise everyone to file an objection against the foundational assessment notice now and, if necessary, sue in order not to be cut off from legal recourse later when the property tax notice arrives. This two-stage procedure alone, where people now have to fill something out and cannot yet see what kind of property tax it will ultimately lead to, in my opinion violates the constitutional principle of legal certainty.

By the way, it was already like that with the two notices now. A foundational assessment notice based on the values from 1964 or 1935 was issued and then the property tax notice. Even then, one would have had to file an objection against the assessed value notice.


By the way, one can now nicely see in principle what would come out if a wealth tax were introduced. Real estate assets are only a small part of what has to be assessed.

Just that alone is already an imposition on the people. You actually have to take action against the foundational notice now to prevent it from becoming legally binding. If the state acted properly, it could issue the notices as "provisional" to keep them open.

An unjust regulation was replaced here by an even more unjust regulation.

Are there obvious errors in your notice regarding the type of house, the living area, or the approximate value? Or would you say it’s roughly accurate? Of course, it’s pointless to file an objection if you cannot justify it...

I cannot identify any obvious errors. My information was correctly adopted. But whether the remaining useful life is correct and whether they have calculated correctly with the values, of course, I cannot know. I would have to look up some terms first. But I assume – and hope – that at least the notice is not grossly incorrect.

If I remember correctly, you had a structure worked out by a tax advisor and a specialized lawyer, where the legal owner under civil law is different from the tax owner. From my point of view, it would be especially important now for a tax advisor to review your assessment again.

We did not have any structure worked out at all, we probably should have. But to be honest – I was in my mid-twenties and hardly knew anything. I applied for and received the building permit and only had to submit a declaration of consent from my father. At that time, he was the sole owner and only recently transferred half of his property to my mother so that there would be two separate inheritances later and I could benefit from two tax allowances. We assumed it was enough to inform the tax office that I was building the house, and then they gave me a separate tax number for the house. By the way, I pay more property tax for my house than my parents do for their house and the entire property. It was never an issue anywhere that the house is actually not mine, because a house always belongs to whoever owns the land. I only found that out a few years ago. We were told back then that it was not necessary to split anything or the like.

Incidentally, you can now clearly see how it would turn out in principle if a wealth tax were introduced. Real estate wealth is only a small part that would have to be assessed.

Yes, you can only look at that with horror. Nevertheless, I will never vote for the party that is the only one to clearly reject wealth taxes. Even a single percent would ruin my entire retirement provision. Matthias

Hello,

have the first notices already been sent out and can you report on them?