Some earn something extra as a landlord with the help of Airbnb. But not everyone thinks about taxes. The tax authorities are now taking a closer look.
Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) – The tax offices are on the trail of landlords who use the Airbnb platform and do not pay tax on their income: In 41 cases so far, an additional tax result of almost 93,000 euros has been determined, said a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Finance in Stuttgart with. By the end of December 2022, the special unit for tax supervision (SES) had sent a total of 308 control notifications to the tax offices in the southwest. This checked whether the income had also been properly taxed. First of all, it is only about the period from 2012 to 2014.
A special unit of the Hamburg tax investigation team, together with other federal and state authorities, had achieved in international legal proceedings lasting several years that Airbnb based in Ireland had to hand over the data of landlords for tax control purposes.
The SES, based at the Karlsruhe-Durlach tax office, has been in existence since 2014. The men and women specialize in analyzing extensive data sets so that they can be passed on to the local tax offices for verification.
