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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BERLIN. ^8 lili Predominant Penis of Working-class Dwellings in Berlin and Suburbs. Berlin— North East Together ... Charlottenburg Rixdorf Reinickendorf— Old buildings New Predominant Weekly Rents. Two rooms. 4s. 7d. to 5s. 9d. 5s. to 6s. 2d. 5s. to 6s. 4s. Id. to 5s. 9d. 4s. to 5s. 2s. 4d. to 2s. 10c?. 2s. 10c/. to 3s. 5d. Three rooms. 6s. 4c/. to 8s. 4c/. 7s. 4d. to 9s. 3d. 7s. to 9s. 3c/. 7s. to 9s. 3c/. 5s. 9c/. to 6s. 9c/. 4s. Id. to 5s. 9c/. 6s. 9c/. to 7s. 8c/. In general it may be said that there is a difference of about 2s. per room per month as between front and back dwellings. The only local tax which wage-earners pay is a supertax of 100 per cent, of the State income tax, for there is no householders’ rate as understood in England. All persons with incomes over £45 are liable to the payment of the State tax, but liability to the payment of the local surtax begins with an income exceeding £21. The municipality of Berlin, however, in virtue of the option secured to it by law, exempts from local taxation all incomes not exceed ing £45. Thus, of a total of 699,860 individuals who might have been assessed to the communal income tax in 1905,137,613, or 19*6 per cent., were exempted. The following individuals with incomes between £45 and £150 were taxed for local purposes, and also paid the same amount in State income tax :— Table showing incomes assessed for local taxation :— Income. Over £45 but £5210s. £60 but £67 108 £75 but £82 108 £90 but £105 „ £120 „ £135 „ not over £52 10s. but not over £60 not over £67 10s. . but not over £75 not over £82 10s. . but not over £90 not over £105 ,, £120 „ £135 „ £150 Total Local Tax. 0 12 0 16 No. of Persons. 189,015 117,907 59,611 41,987 18,795 20,767 17,543 16,756 10,876 11,984 505,241 Per cent, of the Whole. 37 41 23-34 11-80 831 3 72 4-11 3-47 3-32 2-15 2-37 100-00 It appears that of a total estimated revenue from the communal income tax due in 1905 from individuals (companies excluded) of £1 408 800 £338,288 or 24 per cent, fell on the 505,241 taxpayers (90 per cent, of the whole) with incomes not exceeding £150, and £109,762 or 7-8 per cent' fell on the 306,922 taxpayers (54-6 per cent, of the whole) with incomes between £45 and £60, this latter amount being about 7s. 2d. per head, which was their total direct obligatory contribution to the rates. There are other municipal taxes, but either they are property or trade taxes, or they are luxury taxes, like the dog tax and the local excise on beer The net yield of all the communal taxes in the financial year 1904-5 was £1 18a. Id. per head, against £1 15a. 6d. in 1903-4. With a view to increasing its resources and at the same time to imposing a certain indirect check upon speculation in building land, the City Council of Berlin some vears Lo introduced a tax upon all transactions in real estate. The amount is 2 per cent of the purchase money where the land is not built upon, and 1 percent on land built upon, and the yield in 1905 was £330,000. This tax is now bLim? supplemented by a tax on unearned increment (the " increased value tax ”1 which was in piinciple approved by the Council in the spring of 1907 Already

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