Record volume and record debt: Dietramszell local council approves budget. In order to cover its expenses, the municipality is planning to take out three new loans this year.

The assessment rates will not be increased - even though the municipality's property and trade tax rate of 320 percent is well below the district average. The municipality's increased tax capacity in recent years has resulted in the Free State's key allocation falling by 108,000 to just under 750,000 euros. The lion's share of the expenditure in the capital budget - almost 6.3 of a total of 9.2 million euros - is made up of construction work.