Ap-Raymond wants property tax in Oslo – VG

There can be introduced property taxes in Oslo Oslo where Ap and Governing Mayor candidate Raymond Johansen wins local elections next year. It will then frame more than 50,000 homes in the capital.

According to the VG information is the program in Oslo Ap about to land a proposal to tax both residential and commercial properties in Oslo – but will exclude homes is worth less than four million.

The owner of a home in Oslo with the appraised value of just over nine million dollars, could be levied a property tax in 6717 dollars, according to an internal memo regarding property that Oslo Labor has prepared.

The program does not want public debate about the proposal before they can view the Oslo voters what they want to spend the extra tax revenue to receive VG illuminated.

– In Process

– This is the process. The program investigates this by direct request of the annual meeting. They are not finished yet, but will conclude by the end of next week. Raymond Johansen’re unable to comment now writes his advisor Marte Ingul in a text message to VG Tuesday afternoon.

Nor Oslo Labor Party leader Jan Bøhler will comment on the VG information:

– I understand that this should be the program to decide next week. Oslo Aps program meeting shall adopt municipal program 21st and 22nd, Bohler said.

Removed in 1998

The bourgeois parties in Oslo removed the property tax in 1998, after the won the local elections in 1995.

Since more and more Norwegian municipalities – including Bergen – introduced property tax, so it is now about 350 municipalities that collects property taxes, based on different models. By no means all require the property of their homeowners, some taxing only commercial, what in law is called “mills and factories”.

Reintroduced in Bergen

The Conservative-led council in Bergen removed property tax in 2012, but will – according to its budget proposal for 2015 – re-introduce the tax from January.

Bergen municipality will provide a basic allowance of 500,000 kroner for each dwelling unit, and from this calculate the property tax with tax rate of 2 5 per thousand.

Oslo Labor has held internal hearings, where both models have been tested on local teams and the program believe that they have solid support for the property tax, and is now approaching a conclusion. After that VG knowledge, believes the party strategists that such a proposal will now encounter less resistance than before:

** A number of economists have recommended that politicians increasingly taxes assets such as housing.

** How Labor strategists in Oslo reads voters, the harsh debate on wealth autumn shown that there is broad public mood that the richest can not escape tax burdens.

** Property tax does not based on people’s income, but in a rate of tax of the property that would normally be about 80 per cent of property value.

Lost more choices

Opponents, however, mean that it is impossible for Oslo AP to win elections if they take up the discussion on property taxes. They show that labor in the capital has lost many choices in a row because people feared property taxes.

With a basic allowance of four million, this means that every other property owner in Oslo release tax. Average market value of a home in Oslo is barely under four million, according Aps separate report.

Before the local elections in 2011 guaranteed challengers Labor and SV that they were going to introduce property tax in the capital for four-year period, but they still lost the election to the Conservative Party and the socialist bloc.