The Grafinger city council has decided to change the dog tax statute.
A lot is changing, especially for the owners of fighting dogs and hunting dogs.
Grafing - some pay more, others pay nothing more.
The Grafingen city council has once again changed the dog tax statute.
Anyone who buys a fighting dog must pay the full fighting dog tax of 400 euros from January 1st.
"This is a steering tax," said Mayor Christian Bauer (CSU).
This is to prevent "everyone getting such a dog."
Up to now, a fighting dog was treated like a normal dog, if a positive character test was presented, for which only 60 euros tax had to be paid per year.
Grafing changes dog tax statutes: hunting dogs will be tax-free in the future
A new passage has also been included in the statutes, according to which "dogs that are kept by forest workers, professional hunters or holders of a hunting license exclusively or predominantly for the pursuit of hunting or hunting and forest protection are tax-free".
But this sparked a debate.
Claus Eimer (FDP) argued that “hunting is an exclusive hobby” and that the group of people concerned can therefore be expected to pay a dog tax.
Max Graf von Rechberg (CSU) contradicted this.
The hunters would have to have a dog, if only for animal welfare reasons, for example when searching for a deer injured in traffic.
In such a case, the responsible hunter would be asked by the police for help, so he had no choice.
Eimer stuck to it: "This is a subsidy," he criticized.
The majority, however, stuck to the proposed resolution, which stated that hunters should be exempt from tax if they “employ” a dog for their own purposes.
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