Hesse: Boddenberg welcomes extension for property tax return

Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Hesse's Finance Minister Michael Boddenberg (CDU) has welcomed the extension of the deadline for property tax returns as a relief for citizens.

Hesse: Boddenberg welcomes extension for property tax return

Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Hesse's Finance Minister Michael Boddenberg (CDU) has welcomed the extension of the deadline for property tax returns as a relief for citizens. "Many people are currently having legitimate concerns about how they are going to deal with inflation, the enormous rise in energy costs and the war in Europe," said Boddenberg on Thursday after the decision at the finance ministers' conference. Since the property tax reform has certainly slipped down the list of priorities. If so many people are unlikely to be able to meet a deadline, politicians would do well to help and react. Around 2.8 million declarations would have to be processed in Hesse. 1.1 million have already been handed over.

The submission deadline for the property tax return is to be extended once nationwide from the end of October to the end of January 2023. From 2025, the new property tax calculation will apply. The Federal Constitutional Court had demanded this, because the tax offices recently calculated the value of a property on the basis of completely outdated data, from 1935 in East Germany and from 1964 in West Germany. Almost 36 million properties now have to be revalued for the recalculation. The tax authorities need data from all owners. Property tax is one of the most important sources of income for municipalities.