The tax offices in Saxony are still having to deal with a high number of appeals as a result of the property tax reform. By July 31, a total of almost 580,000 appeals against property tax assessments had been received, according to an answer from Finance Minister Hartmut Vorjohann (CDU) to a small question from Left Party MP Franz Sodann. The "Sächsische Zeitung" and "Leipziger Volkszeitung" had initially reported on this. According to this, there are also 58 lawsuits from 25 plaintiffs.
In concrete terms, 334,096 appeals against property tax assessment notices had been filed by the end of July - roughly one in five of the notices issued by August 5 (1,662,570). 32,584 cases have been settled so far, in almost 63 percent of cases the appeal was upheld (20,445).
In addition, there were around 245,777 appeals against property tax assessment notices, of which 25,516 were settled. Here, the proportion of cases in which the appeal was upheld was 59 percent (15,128).
