Abwasserabgabe berechnen und festsetzen

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

For the discharge of wastewater (wastewater or polluted rainwater) into surface waters or groundwater is subject to a wastewater levy in Germany under federal and supplementary state law. The wastewater levy is collected by the individual federal 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 wastewater volume are regularly listed; this is generally available to the determining authority.

Depending on the discharge situation, the following declarations or applications must also be submitted:

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

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

Enforcement of the wastewater levy is free of charge.

The declarations or applications must be submitted to the TLUBN by the deadline.

30.11. before the assessment year (= calendar year):

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

31.12. before the assessment year:

• Application for consideration of the pre-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 of the end of the declaration period:

• Proof of the measurement program in accordance with § 4 Para. 5 AbwAG

31.03. after the assessment year:

• Details of the annual sewage quantity (JSM)
• Declaration for the discharge of rainwater from paved commercial areas via a non-public sewer system in accordance with § 7 AbwAG and § 5 Para. 1 ThürAbwAG
• Declaration for the discharge of rainwater via a public sewer system in accordance with
  § 7 AbwAG and § 5 Para. 1 ThürAbwAG
• Declaration on small discharges subject to charges in accordance with § 8 AbwAG and § 6 ThürAbwAG

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

A wastewater levy is charged in Germany for the discharge of wastewater (wastewater or polluted rainwater) into surface water or groundwater.

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

The ABWAG-online program is available free of charge on the Internet for declarations and applications. To use the password-protected application, taxable persons must register as users with the TLUBN.

Those liable to pay the levy who do not submit their declarations online can obtain the forms from the assessment authority free of charge and in the required quantity or download them from the Internet under: "Wastewater levy, administrative regulation & official forms".