Real estate: before the end of the deadline: millions of property tax returns are still missing

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Before the deadline: Millions of property tax returns are still missing

From 2025, a new property tax calculation is to apply. photo

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Anyone who has not yet delivered must now hurry with the property tax return. Anyone who doesn’t deliver should get a reminder – first of all.

Shortly before the end of the filing deadline, millions of property tax returns are still missing. As a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday in Berlin, around 71.36 percent of the declarations had been received nationwide by Monday. Of these, 61.93 percent were transmitted electronically. In addition, an estimated 9.43 percent of the declarations were received on a paper form nationwide.

The deadline for submissions is this Tuesday. By Sunday, around 68.9 percent had made their statements.

From 2025, the new property tax calculation should 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Court had demanded this, because the tax offices recently calculated the value of a property on the basis of completely outdated data, from 1935 in East Germany and from 1964 in West Germany.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.

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