Changes to parking tickets and the like: Germering will pay sales tax from January
Created: 12/28/2022, 11:44 am
By: Hans Kurzl
From January 2023, the city of Germering wants to pay sales tax.
(Iconic image) © Daniel Karmann
In January 2017 the sales tax law was changed.
Municipalities that trade commercially must pay the tax.
In Germering this will happen from 2023.
Germering
– Whoever sells a parking ticket at the lake or a book on the history of the city is acting commercially and has to pay sales tax.
This also applies to municipalities since the VAT Act was changed in January 2017.
Due to the extensive testing and conversion work, the municipal administrations were granted a transitional period - which was extended several times due to Corona, currently until the end of 2024.
Germering does not want to take this option, but to make the change on January 1st.
This must be formally declared to the tax office in Fürstenfeldbruck.
The main committee unanimously approved this procedure at its most recent meeting.
Germering's Lord Mayor Andreas Haas (CSU) had an urgent concern to explain "that this would not result in any increases for the citizens".
The price for the parking ticket, for example, will not change.
The sales tax is shown within the named price.
According to Markus Sperber, the deputy head of the financial administration, this would also apply, for example, to drinks that were drawn from a municipal coffee machine.
Fees for areas such as schools or childcare facilities are not affected.
Even clubs that use municipal sports facilities do not have to fear an increase.
"Because it's about the care and maintenance of our own systems," Haas explained this aspect.
According to him, the city will consciously implement the law as early as 2023.
All the preparatory work has been done, "This effort should not be in vain," explained Haas.
Criticism from the ranks of the committee members came for a different reason, more in the direction of the legislature.
"It all sounds like an incredibly large amount of bureaucracy," said Thuy Thi Thu Wegmaier (CSU).
Actually, in her opinion, a city administration is sufficiently busy with other tasks and problems.
Haas confirmed this indirectly: "It was quite a feat, almost a Sisyphus task."