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Kiel (dpa / lno) - The owners' association Haus & Grund has sharply attacked Schleswig-Holstein's finance minister.
"Who will stop Monika Heinold's anti-property policies in the Jamaica coalition?" Asked the state chairman Alexander Blažek on Tuesday.
Heinold (Greens) go it alone, making life difficult for owners and young families who dream of their own four walls.
The CDU and FDP would now have to send a clear signal in favor of ownership and put Heinold in his place.
Blažek reacted to Heinold's statements in the “Flensburger Tageblatt”, with which she questioned the prospect of a lowering of the real estate transfer tax.
"The gap in the country's financial planning is so large that I cannot currently recommend tax relief," she said in view of the burdens caused by the Corona crisis.
Schleswig-Holstein has the highest rate of real estate transfer tax in Germany at 6.5 percent.
"For a single-family house worth 400,000 euros, the finance minister collects 26,000 euros," Blažek calculated.
Many young families do not have that much equity.
Therefore, Jamaica started a federal council initiative to ban the tax loophole of the so-called share deals.
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In “share deals”, investors only buy shares in a company that owns real estate.
If the shares are below 95 percent, there is no real estate transfer tax.
From the middle of the year, tax liability is to start from 90 percent.
"The federal government is following a demand by the Jamaica government and closing a tax loophole when buying real estate," said Blažek.
The countries benefited from this.
"I hope that the Groko (grand coalition) is serious this time and actually closes the tax loophole," said Heinold the "Flensburger Tageblatt".
At first there was no comment from her - the minister is on vacation.
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