{"id":360372,"date":"2025-08-20T21:16:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360372\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:16:25","slug":"property-taxes-in-europe-croatia-in-the-middle-as-france-and-uk-lead-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360372\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Taxes in Europe: Croatia in the Middle as France and UK Lead the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Property taxes across Europe are becoming an increasingly hot topic, not only for their role in filling state budgets but also for their impact on housing markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/08\/19\/property-tax-across-europe-which-countries-collect-the-most-and-whats-their-share-of-total\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Commission data for 2023<\/a>, the share of property taxes in GDP varied widely\u2014from just 0.3 percent in the Czech Republic and Estonia to 3.7 percent in France. The EU average stood at 1.9 percent. When looking more broadly at EFTA countries, the UK, and Turkey, Britain and France topped the list, each with 3.7 percent, followed by Belgium at 3.2 percent and Spain at 2.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Croatia Around the EU Average<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In absolute terms, the UK led the way with \u20ac115 billion collected in 2023, followed by France with \u20ac104.5 billion. Italy came third with \u20ac45.3 billion, ahead of Germany (\u20ac41.4 billion) and Spain (\u20ac36.8 billion). Across the EU, property taxes generated \u20ac318.8 billion in revenue last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Croatia sits in the middle of the European spectrum, with property taxes accounting for about 1 percent of its GDP\u2014similar to Germany, but well below France or Belgium. Since this year, Croatia has also introduced a broader property tax to replace the former tax on holiday homes, extending the levy to buildings used for short-term tourist rentals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Different Approaches Across Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When measured as a share of total tax revenue, property taxes ranged from 0.8 percent in the Czech Republic and Estonia to 8.4 percent in France, with the EU average at 4.7 percent. Besides France, high ratios were seen in Belgium (7.4%), Greece (7%), Spain (6.7%), Portugal (5.9%), and Luxembourg (5.7%). Germany remained on the low end with just 2.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A significant segment of property taxation comes from transfer taxes on real estate transactions. Italy leads this category, collecting the equivalent of 1 percent of GDP, while Croatia levies a 3 percent transfer tax on property purchases\u2014an important source of income for local municipalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Property taxes across Europe are becoming an increasingly hot topic, not only for their role in filling state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[126680,2000,126681,299,126686,36,126682,126684,126679,126685,126683],"class_list":{"0":"post-360372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-croatia-property-tax","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-eu-property-tax-report","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european-commission-2023-data","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-france-property-tax","15":"tag-housing-market-europe","16":"tag-property-tax-europe","17":"tag-real-estate-tax-croatia","18":"tag-uk-property-tax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115063173016507054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}