Can I pass on costs including taxes to the landlord?
Hello,
We had water damage in the basement, which required us to dry the property with construction dryers. The construction dryers ran on our electricity meter for 14 days. Afterwards, we received a consumption overview. We would now like to reclaim the resulting electricity costs from our landlord. My question is, can I also reclaim the 19% VAT I paid? After all, I have to pay this through my electricity bill.
Greetings
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If the landlord is “responsible” for the water damage, he must reimburse the costs, i.e. the rent of the construction dryer, the electricity – of course incl. VAT – for their operation and possible damage to your cause, even a reduction in rental for the partial invalidity it must accept.
Neither you nor the landlord can get the 19% VAT back. You are both not entrepreneurs or the performance was not drawn for the company.
Whoever has to bear the costs depends on who is responsible for the damage. Your responsibility = your costs. Responsibility of your landlord = its costs.
The drying pays the one who ordered it.
Mostly it is the landlord, and he usually does an insurance, which the tenant pays, so he waits for the installation of the consumption without the proportion of counter costs and is good.
Thanks for the supplement, so the installation to the landlord or to the administrator should be the property.