Berlin: Shocking unveiling! 41% of the property tax notices wrong!

Berlin: Shocking unveiling! 41% of the property tax notices wrong!

Berlin, Deutschland - alarm! A tax disaster threatens in Berlin! The Court of Auditors has revealed chaos when calculating the property tax values: Sensational 41.3 percent of the new calculations are grotto falsch. The result: Countless Berlin owners are high tax claims. The piquant judgment: The tax offices in Pankow-Weißensee and Zehlendorf are responsible for madness.

The numbers speak volumes: In an examination of 777 cases in two tax offices, the Court of Auditors found considerable errors. The examiners found 41.3 percent of the calculations wrong. Particularly blatant: Instead of evaluating according to precise criteria such as the landscape value and the property area, these sometimes completely incorrectly assigned data was applied. Finance senator Stefan Evers and his administration have to dress warmly - the accusation weighs heavily.

Court of Auditors is alarm!

The scandalous balance: the state of Berlin escaped a whopping 30.6 million euros, only in the checked cases. The tax authorities have already been ordered to correct the carvers and to determine the property tax values ​​precisely. According to a spokeswoman, the Senate Finance Administration has already acted, but Hans-Joachim Beck from the real estate association Germany is outraged: 41 percent of the calculations wrong-a real scandal! According to Beck, a result of the complicated law that completely overwhelmed the financial administration.

The Auditors calls for corrections that could lead to annual additional income of 70 million euros. The dramatic revelations show that the pressure on those responsible increases. Nevertheless, the owner association Haus and Grund sees dangers for the Berliners who are already too much, while the call for a better calculation model is loud.