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Exemption from dog tax - Special tasks

Exemption from dog tax - Special tasks

If you keep your dog for professional, commercial, public or charitable purposes, you can be exempt from dog tax.

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Prerequisites

Dogs kept for professional or commercial purposes:

  • You keep your dog primarily for professional or commercial purposes, private ownership is of clearly secondary importance.
  • Your dog is essential for your profession or business, you cannot fulfil your tasks without the dog.

Dogs with a public or charitable purpose:

  • You keep your dog solely to fulfil your duties, keeping it privately is of completely secondary importance.
  • The dog must be permanently available for its task.

Required documents

We will be happy to advise you before you submit your application as to whether an exemption is possible in your case and which documents you need to submit. As a rule, you will need an informal letter of application with details of the reasons for keeping the dog and suitable evidence of the dog's use. Please also state your telephone number in the application letter so that any queries can be clarified quickly.

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Landeshauptstadt München

Stadtkämmerei
SKA 4.2 Grund-, Zweitwohnungs-, Hundesteuer

Personal appointments only by prior appointment please. The payment counters of the city treasury (cash office) at Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße 11 are staffed from Monday to Thursday from 8.30 am to 12 noon.

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Postal address

Landeshauptstadt München
Stadtkämmerei
SKA 4.2 Grund-, Zweitwohnungs-, Hundesteuer

Postfach 201951
80019 München

Fax: +49 89 233-20356

Address

Seidlstraße 27
80335 München

  • Mon 08:30 - 12:00
    13:00 - 15:00 (only by telephone)
  • Tue 08:30 - 12:00 (no availability by telephone)
  • Wed 08:30 - 12:00
    13:00 - 15:00 (only by telephone)
  • Thu 08:30 - 12:00
    13:00 - 15:00 (only by telephone)
  • Fri 08:30 - 12:00
  • Sat Closed
  • Sun Closed

Accessibility

  • Barrier-free access
  • Disabled parking

Personal appointments only by prior arrangement please. The payment counters of the city treasury are manned Monday to Wednesday at Landsberger Straße 36 during opening hours.

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Deregistration of a dog

If your dog has died, you give it up or you move away from Munich, you must deregister your dog from the dog tax within two weeks.

Loss of or damage to the dog tax tag

If your dog's tax tag has been lost or damaged, you must apply for a replacement tag.

Incidents with dangerous dogs

All incidents involving dangerous dogs, such as "dog bites human" or "dog bites dog", should be reported immediately to the police or the district administration department.

Negative certificate for fighting dogs

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Exemption from dog tax - shelter dog

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Waiver of dog tax - Financial emergency

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