Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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BOCHUM. 89 two. The following rents are for houses in private ownership only, and take no account of the large employers’ colonies. They are also based on returns obtained from the incorporated townships, where dwellings are cheaper, as well as from the old town :— Number of Rooms per Tenement. Predominant Weekly Rent. Two rooms . Three rooms 3s. to 3s. 9d. 3s. to 5s. M.* * The lower figure is often met in the suburbs, where three-roomed tenements are even more common than in the town. Rents in Berlin being taken as 100, the index number for Bochum is 57. Intimately connected with the rents of working-class dwellings, when com parison is made between Germany and other countries, is the question of local taxation. The only direct tax which falls on the working class is the income tax. The State levies this tax on all incomes of 900 marks (£45) and upwards on a graduated scale, and the municipality levies a variable percentage of the tax for local purposes, this surtax being at the rate of 160 per cent, in 1904 and 190 per cent, in 1905. Thus persons in receipt of incomes between £45 and £105 paid the following direct taxes in the latter year :— Groups. Income. Amount of Tax per annum. State. Municipal. Total. £45 but not over £52 10s. Over £52 10s. but not over £60 „ £60 „ „ £67 10s. ,, £67 108. „ „ £75 „ £75 „ ,, £82 108. „ £82 108. „ „ £90 „ £90 „ „ £105 £ 8. d. 0 6 0 0 9 0 0 12 0 0 16 0 110 16 0 111 0 £ s. 0 11 0 17 1 2 W d. 5 1 10 5 19 11 9 5 18 11 £ 8. 0 17 1 1 2 3 d. 5 6 1 14 10 6 5 0 11 3 15 5 4 9 11 For local purposes, however, persons with a lower income than £45 are brought in. Up to 1905 incomes of from £21 to £33 per annum were nominally assessed at 2‘40 marks (2s. 4¡d.) and incomes between £33 and £45 at 4a., and were taxed accordingly at 190 per cent, of these amounts in that year. The exemption limit has now for local purposes been raised to £33. In 1904, 17,500 heads of households and individuals, representing 30,168 persons, were entirely exempted from State and local taxation, and 7,619 heads of households and individuals, representing 15,033 persons, were exempted from State taxation but for local purposes were assessed at 2s. 4 jd. and 4a. Of those who in the old town paid State income tax and the full local surtax in 1904 35*5 per cent, fell to Group No. 1 (incomes from £45 to £52 108.), 23'8 per cent, to No. 2, 10*9 per cent, to No. 3, and 6*9 per cent, to No. 4, making 77*1 per cent, assessed on incomes below £75 per annum. The corresponding percentages in the four incorporated parishes were as follows :— Assessed under group. Grumme. Hamme. Hofstede. Wiemelhausen. Old Bochum. No. 1 j, 2 » 4 Total under £75 18-6 31-6 36-0 4-6 90-8 245 30-8 26 7 8-7 907 29-0 33-0 25 5 3-0 905 24- 4 27 3 25- 4 5-6 82-7 25# GP 77/ For several years rents have been slowly increasing—more, however, in the town than in the suburbs—owing to the growth of population caused by the extension of the collieries and a dearth of dwellings. Quarterly tenancy is the local custom, and notice on either side must end with March, June 29088 M

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