Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – Even if many property owners are still in arrears – Baden-Württemberg does not want to extend the deadline for submitting property tax returns like Bavaria. There are no similar plans in the southwest, a spokesman for the Ministry of Finance told the German Press Agency on Tuesday. According to the ministry, 67 percent of the declarations for property tax B were received by Tuesday afternoon, around 94 percent of them digital. The extension of the deadline for property tax B ends today, January 31, 2023. A total of 5.6 million properties in the south-west have to be revalued. This is followed by a reminder process.
From 2025 onwards, a new property tax calculation is to 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Court had demanded this, because the tax offices recently calculated the value of a property on the basis of completely outdated data, from 1935 in East Germany and from 1964 in West Germany.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 nationwide now have to be revalued for the recalculation.
Bavaria is single-handedly extending the deadline for the submission. Property owners should have three months more time, i.e. until the end of April, as Bavarian Finance Minister Albert Füracker (CSU) said on Tuesday after a cabinet meeting in Munich.
