Translation of "Eigenheimzulage" in English

The government has recently cut some subsidies, such as the home-owners’ allowance.

Paragraph 1 of the EigZulG provides that persons liable to unlimited taxation of income for the purpose of the EStG are entitled to that property subsidy.

Eligibility for the property subsidy therefore concerns only taxpayers liable to German income tax.

For this, it refers to the letter of formal notice, in which the Commission’s subject is the situation of the ‘German taxpayer’, 11 whereas the complaint has now been extended to the exclusion of people of foreign nationality from eligibility for the property subsidy.

According to Paragraph 4 of that law, the right to the subsidy may be acquired only in calendar years in which the beneficiary uses the dwelling for his own occupation.

A preliminary point to be noted here is that by letter of 4 January 2006 the Federal Republic of Germany informed the Court of the adoption on 22 December 2005 of the Law abolishing the subsidy for owneroccupied dwellings (Gesetz zur Abschaffung der Eigenheimzulage, BGBl. 2005 I, p. 76).

Since it is established that the law abolishing the subsidy was adopted after the expiry of that period, it is not to be taken into consideration in these proceedings.

According to the Federal Republic of Germany, extending the grant of the subsidy to properties situated in another Member State would in effect fail to have regard to that objective.

Persons entitled to the subsidy and wishing to purchase a dwelling increase demand and therefore encourage the construction of property for letting, meeting that demand, which they will subsequently be able to acquire.

A German citizen complained to the Ombudsman, referring to a judgment of the EC? concerning the abrogation of the "home owner allowance" (Eigenheimzulage) in Germany.

The European Commission has decided to refer Germany to the European Court of Justice because of its discriminatory rules on housing grants.

But those who cannot even get the first home owner grant because of their higher income still have the opportunity to get inexpensive used properties on the market –and then modernize them to a high standard.

To private citizens we offer various tips and recommendations on the subjects of advertisement expenditures, non-typical expenses as well as housing subsidies and taxation of property.

All facilities, which you need if motor home owner, are present and thus is all said.

Unlike in Germany, where specific developments such as the abolition of the home owner allowance, the increase in sales tax and falling real incomes have brought about a historic collapse in new building approvals, the effects of the economic downturn in France's construction industry have been much less marked.

These include the general energy tax reduction for the manufacturing and agricultural sectors, the coal subsidies, the home ownership grant and the subsidies for the production of spirits.

Exceptional factors, such as anticipatory actions before the cutback of the home owner allowance, infrastructural measures to repair flood damage and singular major projects, slowed the steep downward tendency again in 2004.

It comes only on to find and use the appropriate pots correctly. “Scarce one year after abolishment of the home of one's own extra pay give those to approximately 500 German broker of the world-wide largest real estate network RH/CMAX of 'all-clear' signal for all, which believed the dream of the own house burst.

In most cases, subsidies preserve traditional structures, for example in agriculture (preservation subsidies).The government has recently cut some subsidies, such as the home-owners' allowance.