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Dresden (dpa / sn) - The Saxon state parliament decided on Wednesday to reform the property tax.
The basis for the new regulation was a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court in April 2018. According to this, the standard values that had remained unchanged for decades had to be replaced by new assessment bases.
The states were able to make their own regulations, which Saxony now made use of.
The new property tax will apply in the Free State from January 1, 2025.
The CDU politician Georg-Ludwig von Breitenbuch spoke of a “balanced Saxon solution.
«If we had implemented the federal law 1: 1, for example, company properties would have been relieved significantly more.
The home and property owners would have had to pay significantly more on average. "
These faults would now be wisely balanced with the Saxon law.
But honesty also means that there will be property owners who will have to pay more in the future than before, said von Breitenbuch.
“But that's also normal.
It must be reflected in the assessment whether the villa, the apartment building or the commercial area is in the city center, in the Speckgürtel, in the Ore Mountains or in Lusatia. "
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Criticism came from the economy as well as from the FDP.
According to the chambers of industry and commerce and the Association of Saxon Economy, the Saxon model brings substantial increases in property tax for parts of the commercial economy.
Serious disadvantages for the location are to be feared if the costs for it continue to rise, it said.
“Unfortunately, Saxony misses the opportunity to stimulate both the economy and the housing market by using the state opening clause with noticeable reductions in property tax.
Even in times without the coronavirus, this would be the wrong signal - but it is downright fatal now, "said the Dresden Bundestag member Torsten Herbst.
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