I recently got a letter from the Finanzamt, demanding that I pay my landlord's back taxes. I have an appointment at the Mieterschutzbund on Friday morning; but I'm expecting a fight when I dock the sum from my next rent payment. Who knows what will happen when the registry becomes a thing. My landlord is definitely over charging for rent; but I never tried to really fight it. Good times.
The Finanzamt has designated me as "Drittschuldner"; and they want me to fill out a form. I've tried to read this thing a few times, but I still don't really understand it. I'll see what the Mieterschutzbund says and get access to the laywer and have them write a letter for me to the Hausverwaltung. But, yes, how I can be asked for money that the landlord owes... I have no words.
They surely just want you to pay the rent to them INSTEAD of to your landlord until his or debts are cleared. You're not liable for more than your monthly rent payments.
Over here on the southeast side of Berlin (Wendenschloss) cell phone service gets disrupted whenever there is a power failure.
There's a cell phone tower just around the corner from my apartment, but apparently no one thought it was necessary for it to have any type of battery/generator backup.
If something catastrophic happened, we wouldn't be able to call for help.
I recently got a letter from the Finanzamt, demanding that I pay my landlord's back taxes. I have an appointment at the Mieterschutzbund on Friday morning; but I'm expecting a fight when I dock the sum from my next rent payment. Who knows what will happen when the registry becomes a thing. My landlord is definitely over charging for rent; but I never tried to really fight it. Good times.
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WTF? Why would you have to pay your landlord's unpaid taxes???
The Finanzamt has designated me as "Drittschuldner"; and they want me to fill out a form. I've tried to read this thing a few times, but I still don't really understand it. I'll see what the Mieterschutzbund says and get access to the laywer and have them write a letter for me to the Hausverwaltung. But, yes, how I can be asked for money that the landlord owes... I have no words.
The state is treating you the way it would the debtor of a bankrupt business. Outrageous.
They surely just want you to pay the rent to them INSTEAD of to your landlord until his or debts are cleared. You're not liable for more than your monthly rent payments.
Over here on the southeast side of Berlin (Wendenschloss) cell phone service gets disrupted whenever there is a power failure.
There's a cell phone tower just around the corner from my apartment, but apparently no one thought it was necessary for it to have any type of battery/generator backup.
If something catastrophic happened, we wouldn't be able to call for help.
This is nuts. I fear Germany is poorly prepared for an emergency because it's all been OK-ish for so long.