Property tax – what now?

Recently, rumours have started circulating again regarding the new property tax. Municipalities are once again facing the dilemma of whether to invest in the management and improvement of records regarding the fee for the use of building land, or whether to wait a year or two, and let the government take care of it all. In the last 30 years, there has been talk of a real estate tax several times, and municipalities thus kept "waiting" for the state. In the process, they often lost an important financial resource. Even if the government decides upon the implementation of the tax, the results will not be immediate.

Most of the time, even small data management activities result in better records which fairly and transparently distributes the fee payment burden among all taxpayers, reduces the possibility of taxpayers complaining about decisions due to improperly used data, and at the same time, enables the fee to be collected correctly as well as ensures a stable budgetary inflow to the municipality.

If the government actually succeeds in establishing a property tax, a series of new questions and needs for the regulation of records will arise, some of which are already covered by the Spatial Management Act (ZUreP-3). Again, all these records are not intended to be used solely for property tax data collection, but for a wider use in the proper management of the municipality's land policy. Learn more about this in one of my upcoming articles.