Hamburg. In order to strengthen the mediation of animal shelter dogs, the dog tax law is to be changed and shelter dogs from Hamburg are to be released from dog tax. A corresponding application by the Hamburg CDU citizenship group is now being examined by the Senate-also like a joint additional application from the government factions of the SPD and the Greens, which also contains temporal limitation of tax exemption for certain dogs. The HTV basically supports a dog tax exemption as an adoption incentive-however, this should apply to all dogs from animal welfare.
The capacities are exhausted in many animal shelters – the Hamburg Animal Welfare Association from 1841 also had to impose absorption stops again. One of the problems: instead of choosing a dog from the shelter, unfortunately, numerous people heat up the illegal puppy trade, which is associated with a lot of animal suffering. In order to create an incentive to choose an animal shelter dog, the CDU would like to permanently free all dogs that were handed over directly to a Hamburg animal protection association in Hamburg in Hamburg. The government factions of the SPD and the Greens require an additional application to adapt the Hamburg dog tax law to animal protection -friendly and to relieve the owners of animal shelter dogs – possibly limited in time, then only for older dogs permanently.
Dog tax exemption should apply to all animal protection dogs in Hamburg
From the perspective of the HTV, all animal shelter dogs should be freed from dog tax – not only from Hamburg or older dogs. “We do not want a 'remnant ramp', from which older dogs are conveyed with a discount from the state – apart from the bureaucratic effort that would be associated with a differentiation – however Goten,” contradicts such a selection to the idea of animal welfare, “said the second chairman of the HTV, Dr. Gabriele Waniorek-Goerke.
A tax exemption should also apply to dogs from abroad that came to Hamburg on the animal welfare route. The HTV also conveys rescued dogs from Romania as part of its possibilities.
“In principle, we want the tax exemption for all dogs from animal welfare-because animal welfare does not know any national borders. However, if the political parties cannot agree on it, but want to limit the measure to dogs from Hamburg, we welcome this small step that goes in the right direction,” summarizes Waniorek-Goerke.