Dortmund.
Big loss for the city of Dortmund: The betting office tax is illegal. Now it is also clear how much the city has to pay back.
the City of Dortmund has to pay back almost 4 million euros in taxes – because they should not have been levied at all. The city had one in 2014 municipal tax on sports betting introduced. Much to the displeasure of the 40 affected betting shops: Three complained and were ultimately right by the Federal Administrative Court. Now the amount of the repayments is also fixed. First they had Ruhr news reported about it.
That Judgment of the Federal Administrative Court had already fallen in September 2022. In the Judgment reasoning At the time, it was said that levying an (additional!) city tax was not permitted because it was in line with taxes already levied nationwide. Because betting shops have to taxes anyway pay on race and sports bets. A double “local expense tax for the same item” is not possible.
Dortmund pays back betting office tax – 100,000 euros on average
According to Ruhr News, the city of Dortmund has now announced how much it is going to the betting shops repay must: scarce 4 million euros – on average 100,000 euros for each of the around 40 Dortmund betting providers.
When the tax was introduced in 2014, the city calculated the amount based on square meters of the betting shop. After the Higher Administrative Court overturned this calculation in 2017, the city changed the calculation basis: 3 percent of the gross stake due. The federal tax is already 5 percent.
Betting office tax office at the city of Dortmund will be deleted
This regulation has now been overturned. The city of Dortmund had one half place created for the processing of the betting shop tax – this position will also be deleted, reports the Ruhr News. But only when everyone Refund Requests the tax are worked on.
How high the litigation costs are that the city of Dortmund has to bear is unclear.
After Dortmund and Hagen, other cities in the Ruhr area had introduced a betting shop tax, such as Bochum and Essen.
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