government is capable of, you are already, anyway. as measured by the word monster with the Green group, want to relieve in the Bundestag, the tenant-in-Germany: thanks to the “tenants property tax relief act”, which aims to bring the eco-week to the Parliament, to tenants in Germany are one of the larger cost items in the service charge settlement relieves
“Quickly, without red tape,” and without financial damage to the Federal budget could be relieved by the removal of the land tax from the apportionable incidental costs “of 36 million people in the rental house hold,” said Green party Chairwoman Katrin Göring-Eckardt to the daily mirror. Alone, the Greens do not see your advance. The SPD raise this demand “for weeks,” Greens spokesperson for housing policy Chris Boldly: “If the SPD really mean it, you must agree to our bill”.
at the end of last year, the Federal Minister of justice Katarina Barley (SPD) had just the Plan of a cancellation of the property tax levy on the tenants of residential houses, a “very good idea”, as the “editors’ network Germany,” reported first. The CDU/CSU parliamentary group, SPD-coalition partner in the Federal government, not with drew, which is also Barleys enthusiasm dampened. The proposal has, therefore, explosive force, because the reason taxes must be reformed this year. And in some of the reform proposals, the amount of the tax should be based on the market value of the land, which could just in metropolises such as Berlin, the tax burden to rise sharply.
nationwide demonstrations against high Rents
announced in addition to the cost of living are considered to be “second rent” and the property tax contributes to a large part: 2,79 Euro per square meter, it is the German tenants ‘ Association, according to an average of. In Berlin, around 200 euros a month for a 80 sqm apartment is common. Above average she is ready for new buildings, because there is no longer as in the existing outdated land values indicative for the basis used, but current.
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Against the high Rents, especially in Metropolitan and urban areas to 6 locks for Reform. April nationwide demonstrations announced. In Berlin, where the housing shortage is particularly great, starts on the same day, the collection of signatures for the popular initiative “Deutsche Wohnen & Co expropriate”. The measures from the “housing and rent summit”, convened by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU/CSU) in the fall, had slowed down the rise in rents so far.