Abwasserabgabe berechnen und festsetzen

Do you discharge wastewater into surface water or groundwater? Then you have to pay a levy to the Free State of Thuringia. For this purpose, you should submit the declarations (forms) required for the assessment of the levy to the responsible office.

For the discharge of wastewater (sewage or polluted precipitation water) into surface water or groundwater in Germany is subject to a wastewater levy under federal law and supplementary state law. The wastewater tax is levied by the individual states.r.

The wastewater levy is determined on the basis of the discharge permit under water law, in which the monitoring values and the annual volume of wastewater are regularly listed; this is generally available to the determining authority.

In addition, depending on the discharge situation, the following declarations or applications, among others, must be submitted:

• Declaration in accordance with § 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 AbwAG ( Declaration of the monitoring values and the expected annual volume of wastewater, insofar as this information has not been specified in a permit under water law)
• Application for consideration of prior pollution (of the water body from which the water was taken directly) according to § 4 Abs. 3 AbwAG
• Declaration of compliance with lower monitoring values according to § 4 Abs. 5 AbwAG
• Proof of the measuring program according to § 4 Abs. 5 AbwAG
• Information on the annual wastewater volume (JSM)
• Declaration for the discharge of precipitation water from paved commercial areas via a non-public sewer system according to § 7 AbwAG and § 5 Abs. 1 ThürAbwAG
• Declaration for the discharge of precipitation water via a public sewer system according to
  § 7 AbwAG and § 5 Abs. 1 ThürAbwAG
  
• Declaration of small discharges subject to levy according to § 8 AbwAG and § 6 ThürAbwAG

Anyone who discharges wastewater directly into a body of water is liable for the levy.

The enforcement of the wastewater levy is free of charge.

The declarations or applications must be submitted to the TLUBN in due time.

30.11. before assessment year (= calendar year):

• Declaration according to § 6 para. 1 sentence 1 AbwAG

31.12. before assessment year:

• Application for consideration of prior charge in accordance with § 4 Para. 3 AbwAG

At least two weeks before the requested period:

• Declaration of compliance with lower monitoring values in accordance with § 4 Para. 5 AbwAG.

Within one month after the end of the declaration period:

• Proof of the measurement program according to § 4 Para. 5 AbwAG

31.03. after the year of assessment:

• Information on the annual wastewater volume (JSM).
• Declaration for the discharge of precipitation water from paved commercial areas via a non-public sewer system according to § 7 AbwAG and § 5 Abs. 1 ThürAbwAG
• Declaration for the discharge of precipitation water via a public sewer system according to
  § 7 AbwAG and § 5 Abs. 1 ThürAbwAG
  
• Declaration of small discharges subject to levy in accordance with § 8 AbwAG and § 6 ThürAbwAG

An appeal against the wastewater levy notice can be lodged with the assessment authority within one month of notification The appeal has no suspensive effect, i e the wastewater levy must be paid in due time in any case.

In Germany, a wastewater levy is charged for the discharge of wastewater (sewage or polluted precipitation water) into a surface water body or into groundwater.

In Thuringia, the Thuringian State Office for the Environment, Mining and Nature Conservation (TLUBN), Ref. 51 "Wastewater, Wastewater Levy", is responsible.

For the declarations and applications, the program ABWAG-online is available on the Internet for free use. For the password-protected application, the levy payers must register as users with the TLUBN.

The levy payers who do not submit their declarations online can obtain the forms free of charge and in the required number from the assessment authority or from the Internet there under: "Wastewater levy, administrative regulation & official forms".