Contact BILD!: Are you also angry about the new property tax? | Life & Knowledge
What additional burden will the new property tax bring for Germany's house and apartment owners? There will only be final clarity once all municipalities in Germany have decided on their tax rates for 2025, but there are clear indications: the new property tax will hit most property owners hard. BILD will report regularly in the coming months.
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As a reminder: With the property tax reform, many changes will be coming to home and property owners from 2025. Around 36 million properties will be revalued. For this purpose, the so-called land value will be introduced, which applies to areas in a region. Also new: property tax C. The aim: to tax undeveloped properties ready for construction more heavily in order to curb speculation and create incentives for the construction of new housing.
Every property owner receives up to three notices from the tax office. The last one shows the final burden. The so-called value notice is sent to most taxpayers, the measurement notice that follows is sent to many. Tax professionals can already calculate the burden now if they know whether a municipality will reduce the assessment rate (like Berlin) or leave it unchanged.
BILD has already reported on this incredible case:
Next year 3770 euros instead of 269 euros
But this can be very expensive for the owners, as was the case for pensioner Rolf Hanstein (74) from Stuttgart.
Rolf Hanstein (74) will have to pay 3770 euros in property tax in the future because his garden is suddenly residential building land
Hanstein lives with his wife (68) in a house (approx. 210 square meters) with a large garden (approx. 420 square meters) – this is how it was supposed to be built 90 years ago so that poor people could grow vegetables. This is now costing him dearly: Previously, the property cost 269 euros in tax per year, now the tax office wants 3770 euros! Because now the entire property is considered residential. The pensioner: “That’s as much as I get in two months’ pension. That’s not possible.” He will lodge an objection!
This is exactly what the Taxpayers' Association recommends. The association and Haus & Grund are supporting several owners who are fighting against the assessment and want to take the case to the Federal Constitutional Court.