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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200 DRESDEN. The figures in this table relate to conditions as they were on the date of the Housing Census of December 1, 1900 ; but in the opinion of municipal officers of great practical experience in matters relating to housing in Dresden, the proportions shown above are not likely to have undergone any material change in the meantime. A similar census, of which the results have not yet been published, was undertaken at the end of 1905, and from the material collected on that occasion the Director of the Municipal Statistical Office has been good enough to furnish particulars of the rents of 1,502 working-class tenements consisting of not more than four rooms and distributed over the 17 urban districts into which the town is divided. Of the 1,502 tenements, of which the rents have been supplied, 955 consist of either three or four rooms. The tabulation of these gives the following results :— Predominant Rents of Working-class Dwellings. Number of Rooms per Tenement. Three rooms Four rooms Predominant Weekly Rents. 3s. 10(7. to 5s. 2d. 4.S. to 5s. 9(7. This result strengthens the conclusion to which one inclines after observing a large number of tenements occupied by working-class families in different parts of the town—viz., that the bulk of such families are housed in good three- roomed dwellings, or else in inferior four-roomed dwellings for which they pay little more (and sometimes even less) rent. Taking rent at Berlin as 100, the corresponding figure for Dresden is 54. No element of local rates or taxes (except water rate) is included in the rents given in the foregoing pages, since the occupier of a dwelling is assessed for his share of the general local burdens, not in his capacity of occupier, but in his capacity of earner of an income. One of the main branches of municipal revenue consists of an income tax levied over and above the State Income Tax, and standing in a fixed ratio to the latter. In Dresden this ratio is 54 per cent. All incomes exceeding £20 a year are subject to State Income Tax. The scale of the tax payable on incomes up to £110 per annum is shown below :— Class. la 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Yearly Income. Over £20 ,, £25 „ £30 ,, £35 „ £40 ,, £4? „ £55 ,, £62 „ £70 ,, £80 ,, £95 to £25 ... „ £30 „ £35 ... „ £40 „ £47 10s. 10s. to £55 to £62 10s. 10s. to £70 to £80 „ £95 „ £110 ... Amount of State Income Tax. Shillings. 1 2 3 4 7 10 13 16 20 26 36 The amount of a parent’s income assessed for income tax is reduced by £2 10s. in respect of every child between six and 14 years of age whom he has to support, so long as the parent’s income does not exceed £155 per annum. On the other hand, a child who is beyond the school age and helps regularly at the parent’s trade (otherwise than as an apprentice), even though such child receives no remuneration, is assumed to be earning the same amount as the parent would have to pay a stranger for the same services, and income tax has to be paid on that amount. From the scale it will be seen that 'a workman earning 20s. a week would come under Class 5 and pay 10s. a year State Income Tax. The tax (corre sponding to our local rates) payable by such a man would in Dresden represent 54 per cent, of 10s, or about os. 5d. per annum, that is a little more than id. a week.

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