Heilbronn (dpa/lsw) - The CDU parliamentary group is calling for an official extension of the deadline until March 31, 2023 when submitting the property tax return. "We are concerned with legal certainty and legal clarity for property owners," write parliamentary group leader Manuel Hagel and financial expert Tobias Wald a joint letter to Finance Minister Danyal Bayaz (Greens), which is available in the newspapers "Heilbronnerstimme" and "Südkurier" (Wednesday). The submission deadline is at the end of the month. According to a spokesman for Bayaz, the federal and state finance ministers want to discuss the issue this Thursday in Berlin.
Bayaz's most recent request via press release that the property tax had to be paid and that reminders would be sent in the first quarter of 2023 was described by Hagel and Wald as "not sufficient to counteract the current situation effectively and effectively". The CDU politicians explained that only by officially extending the deadline until the end of March 2023 would it be possible to maintain the population's trust in the country's property tax law. With a view to the currently valid deadline, according to Hagel and Wald, it is the least that Bayaz instructs the tax authorities in the south-west not to charge a late fee.
Around 1.5 million property tax returns have been received in Baden-Württemberg so far - just under 27 percent of the returns to be submitted. Bayaz had already announced that reminders for submitting property tax B would be sent out in the first quarter of 2023. This gives defaulting property owners a longer period of time, but only unofficially.
