Unused building land: Municipalities must collect
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Starting this year, the 119 Salzburg communities must collect unused building land. The data on this is the basis for the infrastructure fee due from 2024. The state of Salzburg wants to slow down speculation with expensive building land.
Which properties have which dedication and since when? The municipalities have to enter this in a database of the state of Salzburg in the next twelve months. According to the office of Regional Planning Councilor Josef Schwaiger (ÖVP), the training is in progress.
The infrastructure fee (actually: infrastructure provision contribution) is part of the new spatial planning law. With this, the country wants to force that building land is really built on and not lying fallow in order to speculate.
Tariff from 1,400 euros per year
After five years (or 15 years in the case of personal use), an annual fee must be paid to the municipality for an unused building plot. Up to 1,000 square meters, the highest infrastructure fee is 1,400 euros per year, up to 1,700 square meters at most 2,800 euros, up to 2,400 square meters 4,200 euros, up to 3,100 square meters 5,600 euros. For even larger properties, it goes in 1,400 euro increments.
There are four tariff levels for the new fee. The most expensive applies to the city of Salzburg including the immediately adjacent communities. This is followed by Bischofshofen, St. Johann (both Pongau), Hallein (Tennengau), Oberndorf, Neumarkt am Wallersee, Seekirchen (all Flachgau), Saalfelden and Zell am See (both Pinzgau). In other zones, infrastructure fee tariffs are slightly lower.
Proceeds benefit communities
The municipality receives the income. These infrastructure provision contributions must be used for land policy and for the maintenance, expansion and improvement of infrastructure, the law states.