Budget 2021: Pastettener will soon pay more property tax

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The Pastetten community is currently in good financial shape. It has been debt-free since January, but the current uncertain economic situation is an issue here too. In addition, higher expenses are offset by less income.

Pastetten – The Pastetten community is currently in good financial shape. It has been debt-free since January, but the current uncertain economic situation is an issue here too. In addition, higher expenses are offset by less income. In order to be able to finance the compulsory expenditures in the administrative budget, the finance committee suggested setting the rates of assessment for property tax A and B at 380 per hundred each, 340 per hundred it was before. A total of 243,000 euros are planned, at the end of 2020 the bottom line was 218,000 euros.

Alois Zollner (CSU) found the increase “scandalous”, as he said in the council meeting: “I am fundamentally against a tax increase. This is the completely wrong time to do this. I am sure that you can save the 25,000 euros somewhere else and not have to burden the citizens with it. ”If an increase is necessary, it should also be made on the trade tax.

Zollner also noted that property tax had only increased three years ago. For Treasurer Doreen Graf, however, this measure is inevitable: “Before the municipal supervisory authority increases the rate of assessment, we’d rather take it into our own hands.” Alice Lorenz (Greens) pointed out that the property tax is already over the neighboring communities.

The finance committee had already discussed the plans for 2021 in three meetings. The asset budget is set at 2.6 million euros each in terms of income and expenditure. The most expensive are buying land (915,000 euros), renovating gymnasiums (400,000 euros), expanding broadband (282,000 euros) and flood protection (200,000 euros). The largest income 1.55 million withdrawals from the reserves, added to this are subsidies for the renovation of the gymnasium (488,000 euros) and broadband expansion (225,900 euros).

In the administrative budget, the income and expenditure are set at a good five million euros each. When it comes to spending, a district levy that has risen by 33 percent is the flagship value of 426,000 euros, while the VG and school association levies each increase by twelve percent. In other words: higher expenditure is offset by less income.

The financial timetable up to 2024 envisages construction costs of around five million euros for the construction of the new fire station, 800,000 euros for flood protection and 4.2 million euros for municipal housing. This would mean that 300,000 euros would have to be repaid in 2023 and 630,000 euros in 2024. If everything goes as planned, eight million euros in loans would have to be taken out by 2024. Zollner noted that with the planned seven million for the fire station alone, the rest must be planned for 2025, which Graf confirmed. After a lengthy discussion, the financial plan was approved with 8: 7 votes, the budget charter for 2021 with 9: 6 votes.

In addition to the current budget, the 2019 annual accounts were also up for debate. A total of 6.39 million euros in income was offset by 6.44 million expenses. 3.32 million euros remained, of 49,500 euros in debt, 47,400 were repaid. The audit committee headed by Horst Ippisch (FWE) was thus able to certify that the municipality had a “solid financial position”. At the same time, the recommendation was made that the Budget Committee should deal with the budget earlier and more often in order to continuously improve approaches. Projects should also be prioritized.

In addition, the committee, which includes Alois Huber (WRH) and Roswitha Bayer-Siegling (FWE) as well as Ippisch, would like a record of the community’s assets in order to be able to carry out inventory controls here in the future. One could imagine a maintenance list in order to minimize expenditure overruns in the maintenance of community-owned buildings. Possible deficits and their elimination can be planned in good time. For the same reason, a control concept for technical systems makes sense.

The 2019 annual accounts were unanimously adopted by the municipal council.

Henry Dinger

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