Left-wing party Linke inquires about real estate transfer tax
Berlin. The left-wing party Linke inquires about the real estate transfer tax. The Bundestag faction asked the federal government in a small request which revenues from the real estate transfer tax were collected in the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Moreover, the left-wing party requested the federal government to provide information on the shares of the tax revenues from buyers or sellers of real estate.
The real estate transfer tax is a land tax, which is due upon the transfer of land. The tax is collected by the federal states. The tax rate is graduated and is between 3.5 and 6.5 percent. The tax is usually borne by the buyer of the property. However, some of the federal states have regulations that provide for other arrangements for sharing the tax burden between buyer and seller.
In the small request, the Left-wing party refers to data from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), according to which the revenues from the real estate transfer tax have risen sharply in recent years. The DIW attributes this development, among other things, to the rising real estate prices.
The left-wing party argues that the real estate transfer tax is a regressive tax, i.e., it affects low-income earners relatively more heavily than high-income earners. In the small request, the party therefore asks the federal government to provide information on the social distribution of the tax burden from the real estate transfer tax.
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