1. Rebuilding Ukraine after the war ends? WELT this AM says 1.25 trillion Euro.
2. The property tax mess? For the non-German, the Constitutional Court of Germany handed down a ruling a couple of years ago....that the property tax situation was unfair. So the Bundestag spent some time reframing the situation.
To make this work....they wanted a data base created out of thin air....which you (not the gov't)....would fill in the data. By 1 Feb, your deadline will arrive. Presently, they figure around 55-percent of people have successfully finished their input.
The rest? It's simply not easy to log on and get the system to accept your data. Most people have reached a point of frustration, and told the state tax offices that it's impossible to accomplish.
So here's the two odd pieces of the story.
First, people are beginning to realize that property taxes are going up, and the general promise that it wouldn't amount to much (say 3 to 5 percent)....that's probably not going to be the truth.
Second, while the gov't held all this data, and never had to force people into creating a database from scratch.....there's a lot of suggestions out there that things were screwed-up. The odds that you might put in a lesser amount of square meters for your house, and never get caught? I'd say it's fifty-fifty.
3. Someone polled the German public....asking if it was important that Minister jobs for the gov't was split 50-50 among men and women. Roughly six out of ten Germans said it has zero importance.
4. Watched a piece off N-TV this AM....talking over German pension folks (over 65) now going to the public welfare offices in higher numbers (12-percent increase since 2021).
A lot of them are surprised over what they got upon retirement, and its simply not enough to survive.
5. The Minister of Agriculture is drafting up a regulation to forbid exotic pet importation into Germany.....saying there's a lot of crazy pet situations and it can't continue.
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The wife and I were filling out the property tax reform papers. We normally consider ourselves to be intelligent people, however, we were looking at these forms like two chimps doing a crossword. Whoever devised such a ludicrous system should be hung by their thumbs and flogged.
My wife said the same thing over the computer platform within Hessen. Eventually with a tip from another property owner, she got the program to accept the data.
What bothers me....they had all this data already, and almost no desire to build a new platform around it. It's like they wanted chaos, or simply didn't trust what they had already.
Presently, I'd say if the 45-percent of folks submit on paper....they won't get this crunched into the system in 2023, and it might even be the end of 2024 before all sixteen states agree that they have finished. Then the fun starts....with some folks paying double or triple what they were paying under the old property tax values.
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