A cura di @GiMa

Bloomberg Businessweek ci introduce ad un problema che ritorna in modo ciclico nel dibattito tedesco: quello del problema degli affitti a Berlino, ma questa volta concentrandosi anche sui trucchi contabili che i grandi proprietari immobiliari di appartamenti usano per pagare meno tasse possibili.

On the ground floor of a tan stucco building in the Schillerkiez neighborhood of Berlin sits an anarchist bar called Syndikat. Its windows are plastered with anti-Nazi and anti-gentrification stickers. Motörhead and German punk bands play on rotation, and a small draft beer costs less than €2.

Since 1985, Syndikat has served as a kind of cigarette-smoke-saturated living room for misfits, students, immigrants, and hard-up neighbors. In September 2018, however, an eviction notice from the bar’s landlord, Firman Properties S.a.r.l., appeared in the mail. That’s when Syndikat’s co-managers took on a surprisingly difficult challenge: finding out who owned their building.

 

— Immagine da Wikimedia Commons