New regulation of property tax from 2020

Mr. Scholz announces that tax revenues are not supposed to increase - if you believe that... In the end, the municipalities will decide, who will take the new regulation as an occasion for a changed assessment rate policy. The revenues are important. I consider the principle of basic taxation dispensable. If it is to be, classification according to value makes the most sense.

And how is the value supposed to be calculated? If the only employer driving up prices here goes bankrupt, who will then immediately adjust the value of my hut by 50%?

And how is the value supposed to be calculated?
If the only employer who is driving up prices goes bankrupt, who will then immediately adjust the value of my hut by 50%?

Every tax involves arbitrariness. That is inherent in the system.
Value according to the reference date assessment - e.g. market value estimation
Adjustment at the next reference date.

The Federal Constitutional Court did not overturn the property tax itself, but rather the underlying unit value assessment, because the figures that came out of it are completely unrealistic. According to it, a house in Kampen on Sylt is worth the same as one in Dagebüll Ferry. That simply cannot be. So now Dagebüll is cheering because the tax goes down, and Sylt is crying because it goes up. So what. People from Sylt can handle that.

Where and how much could "Father State" actually still squeeze from the homebuilder?

And that from the guy who wanted to pay for his house in cash but still wanted KFW funding...

You know, I can understand that up to a certain point. People who actually still have to earn their money through their own work are indeed not treated exactly "fairly" in this country (in relation to those who are born with wealth).
What I find terribly idiotic, however, is the belief of some—and after your statements, I have to count you among them—that they are not dependent on society. According to the motto "If I put in noticeably more than I get out, the system is nonsense."

You have apparently come into money as a "private person." I assume through self-employment. You of course credit yourself with this professional and financial success. Good for you!
But now you make the same ugly mistake as many of your kind and ask yourself why "the others" don’t do the same. After all, you can take care of yourself. Your health insurance is privately financed, your pension consists of your own assets, your SUV is only slowed down by public transport, you pay for your childcare and their later (elite) education anyway in view of the state offerings, and at least 6 zeros on your account separate you from ALG II or a care cost subsidy.
So why all the taxes? Four-lane highways (without speed limits!) for the SUV, sure! Police and justice—you can never have enough of those... they make sure no Hartz IV recipient plants potatoes in your front yard.
But paying housing benefit for the single mother’s property tax in the "slummy neighborhood"? Where would we end up? She should work just as hard as you, then the problem will resolve itself!

I know egocentrism is en vogue these days, but when I read how people who have hundreds of thousands of euros left over for a single-family house get upset about (possibly!) a few hundred euros more in property tax per year, it brings a blush of shame to my face.

At Dr Hix: as satire with a very true core, I would have found that good. I find the personal address from berny inappropriate in this form.