Her civil title is Gitte Ravn, and she or he was given an ultimatum by the tax authorities earlier this yr:
Knock on the door of your 13 neighbors and ask them to pay their land debt – or pay it your self.
Now you may be considering that Gitte Ravn was the sufferer of a nasty joke.
She wasn’t.
She is chargeable for her neighbours’ tax funds as a result of she sadly – when she moved right into a newly constructed residential space – took over the unique property quantity.
Subsequently, she should pay the land cost for all houses within the space. A complete of DKK 33,000. And he or she has to scrape the cash herself from the neighbours, was the reply from the Evaluation Company.
The case is just not distinctive. There are related examples across the nation, and you’ve got most likely guessed that it is the new property tax system that is enjoying methods on owners.
But it surely will get even worse.
For owners, hanging on to neighbors’ land debt is just not the one obtrusive injustice that the brand new property tax system has given beginning to.
For instance, dwelling homeowners who reside in an space the place the landowner affiliation owns widespread areas reminiscent of a inexperienced space or a playground should pay land tax on these areas from subsequent yr.
As a result of they’re now categorized as “undeveloped enterprise land.”
And now one other absurdity has revealed itself. It seems that dwelling homeowners who’ve purchased or offered a home should themselves accumulate and distribute the tax invoice and property contribution between them.
In an article in Politiken, Pia and Michael Panse inform how they just lately acquired a cost from Stevns Municipality of DKK 2,142 for waste assortment and rat management within the second half of 2024.
Although they now not personal the home.
Right here, too, the message was that they themselves needed to contact the brand new proprietor and ask for the cash.
The identical applies when you have paid an excessive amount of in land debt within the years 2021-2023. The cash that have to be repaid shall be despatched to the home’s new proprietor – whatever the truth that it’s the “previous” proprietor who’s entitled to it.
If the home’s earlier proprietor has paid too little, the brand new proprietor will foot the invoice.
And so they should determine that out for themselves.
Getting the residents to distribute and accumulate taxes themselves, as we lived within the Wild West, is after all handy and cost-saving for the general public sector.
Then again, it’s deeply criticizable in a authorized society the place logical, truthful and clear tax assortment is likely one of the cornerstones.
The Minister of Taxation, like his many predecessors, doesn’t appear to have absolutely understood the seriousness of the matter, all of the whereas the Valuation Company and the Tax Company are busy chasing after one another.
Please let me remind them that every one confidence within the tax system rests on its being explainable – and thus defended. It steadily appears impossibly tough to identify, and as a house proprietor you’re left on the mercy of a humiliating quagmire.
The place idiocy reigns. And peculiar residents pay the worth.
2024-07-01 17:25:28
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