Unit value example values - single-family house 146 sqm, 780 sqm land

The property tax is a relic from a time when there was no income tax. In its way, it was also fair. Those who were wealthy had a lot of land and thus paid a lot. Those who were not wealthy only had a little and paid little. Those who were poor had no land of their own, only leasehold or were even day laborers for the landlord... thus they paid nothing, as they had nothing. This differentiation is now supposed to be done by the income tax... the property tax would actually be obsolete. Karsten

I boldly claim that if you take a look at our tax system as a whole (taxes and subsidies) and rebuild it from scratch, the burden on the citizen will be lower and the city will still have enough money in the budget to meet its obligations.

. Well, we all know how effective income tax is for wealth redistribution. Namely, not at all. Therefore, I do not consider property tax obsolete and even welcome its increase. Nationwide. Because even if some people don't see it that way and their disposable income (after paying all obligations) is just enough to live on, it still requires a certain level of wealth to afford property. One is part of the above-average wealthy.

Just as a side note. A tax never serves redistribution, but rather the financing of the general tasks of a state by the individual, graduated according to personal ability to pay. Redistribution is not among these tasks, at most the creation of equal opportunities in life. And whoever does nothing with it is to blame themselves.

Will all notices then become invalid and will one pay nothing anymore until there is a new calculation and new law?

You are naive. A new regulation will certainly increase the total volume by about ~10%. That was also the case with the transition from the GEZ to the broadcasting fee.

By the way, our notice contains a passage referring to the pending lawsuits, so the notice is only provisional. I would not be surprised to be asked to pay retroactively at some point.

Therefore, I do not consider the property tax obsolete and even welcome its increase. nationwide.

Everyone, except the homeless, pays property tax. Everyone! I find it completely incomprehensible how people are so gladly willing to pay more and more again and again.

The property tax is a substance tax or also a wealth tax. Unfortunately, only immovable assets are taxed. If your wealth is zero, you pay property tax (as a tenant or as a single-family homeowner with debts). If your wealth exactly corresponds to the value of your unencumbered single-family house, you also pay property tax. And if you own a villa and additional assets worth 1,000,000,000 euros, then you also pay (only) property tax.

That is why property tax is unfair, should be abolished and replaced by a wealth tax that only really affects the wealthy through reasonable exemptions (>> 1 million euros). Of course, that does not work at the state level, but in my opinion it could work at the EU level.

Just by the way. A tax is never for redistribution,

This contradicts the following:

but rather the financing of the general tasks of a state by the individual, graduated according to personal ability to pay

Because that is redistribution per se.

That the property tax in its current form is unjust and hardly meaningful is independent of that.