One of the first signatories in Germany, radio-Interview, opinion on the alleged compromise of the Minister of Finance, Explanatory Film: land value tax in seconds sending a letter to allMayors, The basic taxable tax B in their current Form, both the ground as well as the building. This is unfair and administratively cumbersome, discouraged investment in construction, complicates the realization of the municipal planning and promoted the wasteful use of soil and landscape. Therefore, the signatories of this call, the check for equal treatment of undeveloped and developed properties and, therefore, the embodiment of the land tax as a land tax in earnest. request, Whether a developed plot of land is actually cultivated or not, means from a local point of view, no difference in effort for the development or the maintenance of the infrastructure. The cities and municipalities of the land, the property taxes received due to them owners of each - a modest"basic rate"for the permanent right to development and for the permanent opportunity for the use of public goods and services and, if necessary, to generate revenue. Soil is a scarce resource, with the most economically must be addressed. And in the building needs to be regularly invested, to get you and the particular requirements of the time. Therefore, it is important to build on with building real-primed surfaces actually and in this way the existing infrastructure to its full capacity, to reduce the local budgets, conserve, and use of the Landscape.
Investments the property owner should not lead to a higher property tax.
This guarantees that only a land tax in the Form of a Floor expensive. A fair and investment-friendly tax does not have to be complicated: The on the property the building when determining the value of account, means a substantial simplification. A variety of financial officials could devote their time to more important things. February:"speculators preferred: policy blocked land value tax".
