In detached on Tertnes Bergen sitting Knut Vangen (84) and look at the letters from the municipality of Bergen. Initially, the municipality has implemented a new way to calculate the water and sewage charges on. For him and his wife Sissel means that tax increases from 7600 to 9600 kroner. Next, comes the letter that explains that the bourgeois city council has reintroduced property tax in Bergen. For the couple will be an additional fee of 8,700 dollars a year. Overnight is thus taxes increased by almost 11,000 dollars.
– I do not have trouble paying. But I think the procedure is quite defer. First loops politicians property taxes, and then they come back again shortly afterwards, only to double tax.
Vast differences in property taxes
Tax levels vary widely among the country’s big cities. The biggest difference is obvious property tax. 341 of 428 municipalities in the country have introduced property tax, and obtained in 2013 through 8.9 billion on this. 3.7 of those taken from homes and vacation properties.
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At the top of ” Bykampen “thrones Bergen. Here let recently a council consisting of the Conservatives and the Progress Party presented a proposal for property tax includes all properties with a market value of 750,000 dollars.
Property no choice winner
On behalf of Aftenposten and the major newspapers in Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger and Kristiansand, the Response Analysis conducted a survey that measures voters’ satisfaction with their city.
The survey shows that residents of large cities are little enthusiastic when it comes to property taxes. Voters in Bergen and Kristiansand are mostly negative: 43 percent of respondents report that they are negative for real estate taxes. It is also in these towns we find the highest levels of property tax.
Oslo is the only major cities that do not have property taxes. Oslo voters divide approximately in the middle in the view of this tax: 33 percent positive and 38 percent negative to pay property taxes.
Fee Level does not affect residential choice
Economics Professor at the University of Agder, Ellen Katrine Nyhus, working on economic psychology and consumer behavior. She even doubt that many would choose to move to another city or municipality due to taxes or fees – at least not as long as the differences are not greater than they are now.
– When moving to a place as we are concerned the offer, be it kindergarten, school or elderly care. But then one is probably more concerned with supply than price. Regarding the price for municipal services in their own municipalities, feel enough people little apprehension. The price is as it is, and complaints have little effect.
Professor Nyhus think it is only when one gets large increases in taxes and charges, as one recently held in Bergen, the residents begin putting into question what one gets back. – Where have the taxes have risen without looking that one gets more or better services back, she says.
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