The designated Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to make the fight against tax evasion and illegal work a focus of his work.
Berlin – It is about “a personal mission that is close to my heart,” said Lindner on Thursday on the television channel Bild Live. Undeclared work and tax evasion harmed honest taxpayers. “That’s why I especially want to take action against it.”
Lindner announced “that it is legally forbidden to buy real estate with cash”. And if you want to buy a property from abroad in Berlin in the future, for example, you have to prove that you can do this with taxed money.
In the coalition agreement presented last week, the traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP stated that they also want to combat money laundering with the ban on cash when buying real estate. Commercial and private property buyers from abroad should prove “for any property purchase in Germany” that their money was previously taxed. In the land register, a “summonable address” is therefore mandatory in the event of a change.
The “beneficial owners” should be listed in a transparency register. This should also “end the concealment of the real owners of real estate,” promise the coalition partners.
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