A fee is

• an amount, which is to be paid for a service of an authority, a court, an institute or body of the public right (e.g. for a permission). In the linguistic usage of the administration fees beside the contributions rank among the deliveries. "Deliveries" is thus the generic term for fees and contributions.
• one due to laws (e.g. RVG, raised remuneration for achievements of certain occupational groups.
• in the older linguistic usage what comes to one, which is appropriate; this meaning is not still alive in the proverb "over fee does not stress" = beyond the necessary measure stresses.

Fee or Gebuhr is also an old surname. It originates from the same group of names as new farmer, Gebauer or Neugebauer. In former times that was the name for again tightened farmers.

Definition

Fees are repay for sovereign tasks (so the definition in various encyclopedias).

One calls fees in the financial administration the special remuneration, which are raised directly from the debtors for public (state, municipality) achievements arranged by them or for use from public (state, municipality) mechanisms.

One differentiates between handling charges, which become due for a act of administration (for example for a building permit), and use fees, which (often also after the height) depend on the recourse to of a mechanism (for example the waste water fee).

To define is the fee of the contribution, which is raised independently for the supply of an achievement from its demand.

Colloquially, in addition, in price lists and general trading conditions (AGB), will the term fee falsely for repay to be used, those for private-economical achievements be raised (example: "Bank charges"). - See also: Stamp duty

Height

Fees are coupled to a concrete return and with it by the administration as tied incomes to treat. Hence it follows that the total receipts from a fee may not be higher than the costs of their contribution. However calculatory interest may be in-counted into the fee or be formed from reserves for future investments. Among the users of the achievement the fees can be graduated, e.g. on the basis of social criteria (this is e.g. frequent with kindergarten fees the case). Cost-hitting a corner in the social and cultural range fees are only rare, while e.g. with waste and waste water (the most important local fees) usually Kostendeckung is aimed at.

Rates of charge

The rates of charge are usually certain due to a legal rule. Basis of the broadcast and Internet fees is for example the broadcast fee convention. The height of the court fees is to be inferred above all from the legal charges law and the cost order. Local fees must be fixed by a fee statute, in order to be legal; this statute again is based on a Landesgesetz (local rate law).

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