Property tax reform ensures chaos: Waiting for new notices!

In Advent, a pressing tax burden causes unrest in the cities and municipalities. The property tax reform, which comes into force in January 2025, has already excited many residents in the Peenetal region. As the Nordkurier reports there in vain for new tax assessments, since the legal changes and the necessary expenses will not be timed from the municipal administrations were decided. Usually, the municipalities should receive the necessary templates before the turn of the year to issue the new property tax notices. But both in the city administrations and in the municipal representatives, the corresponding information from the tax office is missing in order to reliably determine the lifting rates. This means that the tax rates that have been valid so far must remain.

uncertain future for taxpayers

In the Loitzer Office, those responsible have decided to maintain the current lifting rates. This is also done in order to save the citizens unnecessary changes in their transfers. The mayor, Enrico Vogel, expressed that too many evaluation data from the tax office were missing and there were some contradictions against the previous notices. Therefore, the exhibition of the new notices will be postponed to the second quarter of 2025. In contrast, the Jarmen-Tutow area plans to lift all previous property tax notices at the end of the year and to send new notices in February 2025. Treasurer Arite Hacker assumes that the necessary decisions of the municipal councils will be available by the end of January 2025 to meet the new Situation. These differences in the handling show how different the preparations of the administrative offices are.

When the re-tax tax is reduced, the lifting rates play a crucial role, as the financial administration northrhin-westfalens . The tax is calculated in a three -stage procedure: the property tax value set by the tax offices is multiplied by the legally presented tax measurement number and then multiplied by the municipal rate. Citizens should therefore make sure that these values are correctly stated in the respective decision, since a deviation can lead to problems with the tax calculation. However, there is great uncertainty whether the municipalities can adjust the lifting rates in good time in order to meet the new requirements of the property tax reform.