New notices from the City of Bremen regarding property tax from the Bremerhaven tax office and contribution notice from the Bremen Dike Association on the right/left bank of the Weser from 2025

If you have any questions about the fee adjustment, please contact the relevant dyke association directly. You can contact the Bremischer Deichverband on the left bank of the Weser on 0421 333060 and the Bremischer Deichverband on the right bank of the Weser on 0421 2076525.

The decisions notified with the contribution notice may be contested by means of an appeal. The appeal must be lodged with the responsible dike association. The Bremerhaven tax office is not responsible for this. Reference is made to the appeal.

This requires the written issue of a SEPA direct debit mandate. Transmission via ELSTER is possible. However, you cannot issue the SEPA direct debit mandate over the phone or by e-mail, as a signature is required.

Please note that a signature is required twice on the form (as the tax debtor and as the account holder). You can download a form from the Internet.

For properties in Bremen and the free port in Bremerhaven, you can download a SEPA direct debit mandate form for property taxes ( https://www.finanzen.bremen.de/sixcms/media.php/13/Vordruck_SEPA-Mandat_Grundbesitzabgaben_mit%20Vorblatt_29.11.2024.pdf ).

No. A SEPA direct debit mandate that has already been issued remains in effect. The amounts due will continue to be debited. This is also evident in the notice, as the amounts to be debited are marked with an asterisk.

The amounts that are collected on the basis of a SEPA direct debit mandate are marked with an asterisk after the amount in the notification. The subsequent amounts will also be debited (even if they are not marked with an asterisk).

Subsequent contributions to the dyke association fee can be found on the reverse of the notice. If no amounts are marked with an asterisk in the notification, no direct debit will be made, even if the amounts due were previously debited.

For the municipality of Bremen, the accounts of the tax office are indicated in the notice for property tax and dike association contribution. It is also possible to issue a SEPA direct debit mandate. Then you save the effort for the transfers.

For questions relating exclusively to payment transactions, please preferably contact the Central Tax Office at the State Central Tax Office (for Bremen properties). You will find the extension telephone number at the bottom left of the footer of your property tax notice.

This is possible in principle, since the identity of ownership is not checked by the tax office.

Please transfer the difference immediately, otherwise the issuance of reminders cannot be prevented and enforcement measures may also be initiated. Late payment will also incur late payment penalties of 1% per month on the amount in default, but rounded down to the nearest amount divisible by €50.

The property tax value for the property was already attributed to you on January 1 of the year, as the delivery of the property (the transfer of benefits and encumbrances) was already agreed in the previous year or on January 1 of this year according to the concluded purchase agreement. You are therefore to be regarded as the beneficial owner until the entry is made in the land register. You should have already received a corresponding notification of the attribution and the amount of the property tax value.

The property tax and the dike association fee are due quarterly on February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15 of each year. You can also find the due dates in your notice. Until a new notice is issued, payments are to be made in accordance with the last assessment.

As an annual payer, the annual tax debt is due on 01.07. of the year.