[Wortmeldungen zur Enquete über die Reform der Gebäudesteuer: 30. November 1903]

Friedrich von Wieser: Interventions on Building-Tax Reform

These two interventions from the hearing of 30 November 1903, published in 1904, record Wieser questioning an expert about declining house values. His contribution concerns the geographical precision of the evidence:

Mich interessieren die Mitteilungen, die der Herr Experte über die Entwertung der Häuser machte und ich möchte den Herrn Experten fragen, ob er in der Lage wäre, uns gerade für Galizien genauere Mitteilungen zu machen.

English translation: I am interested in the expert’s statements about the depreciation of houses, and I would like to ask him whether he could give us more precise information specifically about Galicia.

Wieser then narrows the inquiry from the region to its cities:

Findet das nach Ihren Wahrnehmungen nur in einer oder mehreren Städten Galiziens statt?

English translation: According to your observations, does this occur in only one or in several cities of Galicia?

The sequence distinguishes regional attribution from the actual distribution of observed depreciation. Its relevance to tax reform lies in this demand for more geographically specific evidence. The extract supplies neither the expert’s answers nor a reform proposal by Wieser; it documents his scrutiny of testimony rather than a developed policy argument.