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The municipality of Lenggries would like to increase the assessment rate for property tax.
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The municipality of Lenggries needs to improve its income situation.
The property tax has come into focus.
Lenggries – The financial situation of the municipality of Lenggries is tense.
Mayor Stefan Klaffenbacher (FWG) said at the meeting of the main committee that the red pencil has already been set in some places in the current budget planning.
However, when the 2023 budget was approved, the district office warned that the municipality should try to improve its income situation.
Therefore, it was now a question of increasing the assessment rate for property tax A and B. The former is due for agricultural and forestry land, the latter for developed and buildable land.
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The last major adjustment was in 2003
“There was only a slight adjustment in 2016, the last major adjustment was in 2003. We can discuss that,” said Klaffenbacher.
The property tax assessment rate is currently 310 percent.
Compared to the Bavarian average, to municipalities of comparable size and with a view to the district, “there is scope for improving income,” said treasurer Michael Wenig.
On average, the assessment rate is somewhere between 340 and 350 percent.
“I could imagine that we would approach this approach,” says Klaffenbacher.
“Is it possible to estimate what additional costs each individual will incur?” CSU parliamentary group leader Josef Wasensteiner wanted to know.
Klaffenbacher replied that it was difficult in detail.
Roughly speaking, one could say that an increase of 30 percentage points means that everyone has to pay around ten percent more.
The increase could bring an additional 100,000 euros into the coffers
Increasing the assessment rate to 340 percent - the preferred proposal - would bring a good 6,000 euros more into the coffers for property tax A (then around 73,700 euros), and for property tax B it would be around 100,000 euros (then 1.1 million). .
Wasensteiner was still struggling a bit with it.
“Of course costs are going up and we need revenue improvement,” he said.
Perhaps one or two savings opportunities will emerge during budget consultations.
Klaffenbacher was skeptical, also with a view to the fact that the coming years would not be any less financially challenging.
After the property tax reform everything will be different again
The main committee ultimately voted unanimously in favor of increasing the assessment rate to 340 percent.
The local council will have the last word in two weeks.
Next year everything could be completely different again anyway.
Then the property tax reform takes effect with a new calculation basis.
Because this is supposed to be “revenue-neutral,” meaning the municipality is not allowed to collect much less, but not much more, in property tax, the assessment rate will have to be adjusted again.
In which direction is an open question.