Articles

THE MANAGEMENT OF ABANDONED BUILDINGS & UNFINISHED BUILDINGS IS LEGAL!

Of the Tratsa Battle, THE STEP

A new legislative initiative for the utilization of abandoned buildings has been prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINE). With the involvement of private individuals, the government will proceed with the management of abandoned properties, even unfinished buildings. At the heart of a new legislative initiative, which is expected to be put to consultation around the end of April, is the need to eliminate the risks to public health and citizens’ safety from the abandonment of the building potential of cities, to upgrade areas by reusing disreputable buildings, but also to protect the crumbling cultural heritage. 

> on abandoned properties and the intervention procedures for their restoration and reuse” and urban renewals, which includes a special chapter on abandoned carcasses that hurt the urban fabric, and the final approval of the responsible deputy minister, Mr. Nikos Tagaras, is awaited to get the way for the co-competent ministries and the Parliament.

Announcements

THE INTERPRETATION BY THE MINISTERS OF THE ORDINANCE ON THE UNDECLOSED SQUARES IS WRONG AND OPPRESSIVE FOR THE CITIZENS!       

In its response to interested property owners, the Revenue Department of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior states that from the beneficial provision of article 18 of the recent Law 4915/24.3.2022 for the undeclared square meters, those citizens who submitted declarations to the relevant Municipalities before the publication of the law (i.e. for the interim period 1/1 to 24/3/2022) are excluded and therefore all of them must pay retroactive municipal fees for 14 years, plus the heavy prescribed fines, surcharges, etc.!!!

This official interpretation is absolutely incorrect and oppressive for citizens since at the same time it violates the elementary rules of good administration, attempting to arbitrarily introduce discrimination against those citizens who previously rushed to the Municipalities to obtain certificates for the preparation of legal acts with the old objective values, and creates justified protests for unequal treatment of them.

For this reason, POMIDA requested in a letter the intervention of the Senior Minister, Mr. Petsas, who proposed the relevant provision, to resolve the problem.

Legislation

UNSPECIFIED SQUARES: EXEMPTION FROM MUNICIPAL FEES AND WITH RETROACTIVE EFFECT!

Law 4915/2022 was published by which another important request of POMIDA regarding municipal fees took the path of its resolution, as announced at its 39th Congress by the Deputy Minister of the Interior Mr. Stelios Petsas. 

With this Law on the one hand, the KEDE platform for the declaration of undeclared square footage at the known address reopens immediately and until 30.6.22 a href=”https://tetragonika.govapp.gr/”>https://tetragonika.govapp.gr/, on the one hand they are not expressly and retroactively covered, strong> all property owners for undeclared areas who declared outside the platform or requested certificates of non-debt before the entry into force of this law, i.e. during all the previous intervals of interruption of the operation of the KEDE platform, and of course all those who will declare them at any time until 30.6.2022, through the platform or outside it. 

Legislation

TAP CONFIRMATION: PROPERTY TRANSFER ISSUANCE PROCESS IMPROVED!

With Law 4915/2022, one of the important requests of POMIDA regarding municipal fees was partially accepted, as announced at its 39th Congress by the Deputy Minister of the Interior Mr. Stelios Petsas. Article 19 of this law solves to a significant extent the problem of the delay in issuing the TAP non-debt certificate, which was a significant obstacle to all kinds of real estate contracts. Specifically, after persistent efforts by POMIDA and the Coordinating Committee of Notaries, with article 19 of the new law, the procedure for issuing this certificate was amended as follows with article 19 of Law 4915/2022:

* A new procedure is established regarding the payment of the Real Estate Tax during the transfer of real estate ownership (article 24 par. 18 of Law 2130/1993) and specifically:

Legislation

THE LAW 4916/2022 WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE REDUCED ENFIA IS PUBLISHED!

Law 4916/2022 was published in the Official Gazette “Modernization of the Capital Market Commission’s operating framework – State contribution program to vulnerable debtors until the transfer of their residence to acquisition and re-leasing body of chapter A’ of part two of the third book of n. 4738/2020 – Incorporation into Greek legislation of Directives (EU) 2020/1151 and (EU) 2021/1159, new reduced Single Property Ownership Tax (EN.F.I.A.), urgent tax and customs regulations to address in particular of the energy crisis and other provisions” in articles 40 – 49 includes the ENFIA amendments that will be effective from this year.

Read the POMIDA announcement for ENFIA 2022 here.

Read the amended provisions of ENFIA in the attached Gazette.

 N. 4916-2022

Taxation

THE POMIDA FOR ENFIA 2022: REDUCTIONS IN THE LEAGUES, “LERNAIA HYDRA” THE NEW SUPPLEMENT!

Significant reliefs will arise for taxpayers with already low tax obligations, according to the Ministry of Finance bill submitted to Parliament, while unknown charges amount will arise for those owners who own properties in areas where the objective values ​​have increased significantly, or who joined the objective determination system for the first time, or hold even undivided shares or partial rights in rem on properties with a total objective value of more than of €400,000.

The real “Lernaia Hydra” however proves to be the additional tax of natural persons, since “cutting” is supposed to be the “head ” with its alleged abolition, two new forms of tax increase are emerging:

Legislation

MUNICIPAL FEES: THE ADVERTISING PLATFORM RE-OPENS T.M. AND THE TAP VERIFICATION PROCEDURE IS CHANGING!

Two more important requests of POMIDA concerning municipal fees have been resolved, as announced at its 39th Congress by the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Mr. Stelios Petsas. strong>.

With a bill of the Ministry of the Interior submitted for a vote in the Parliament with the signature of the Minister of the Interior Mr. Makis Voridis, strong>the KEDE platform for undeclared square footage reopens until 30.6.22 https://tetragonika.govapp.gr/, while solving to a significant extent the problem of the delay in issuing the TAP non-debt certificate, which was an important brake on all kinds of real estate contracts. Specifically with articles 18 and 19 of the law:

Announcements

4 MILLION EUROS CREDIT TO 1,537 OWNERS FOR REDUCED RENTS NOVEMBER 2020 – JULY 2021!

The Ministry of Finance announced that it is proceeding today, February 10, with the payment of a total amount of 4 million euros, to 1,537 property owners (Unit A.F.M.), resolving, as previously announced, pending issues for reduced rents for the period March 2020 – July 2021. In particular, they are credited to the bank accounts:

  • 444property owners (natural persons) a total amount of 274euro, with which the State covers 50% of the rent reduction for November and December 2020.
  • 673property owners a total amount of 610euro, with which the State covers up to 80% of the rent reduction for January 2021.
Legislation

NEW KYA FOR ELEVATORS IN PUBLIC CONSULTATION!

The Draft Joint Ministerial Decision to determine the requirements regarding the registration, operation, maintenance and control of installed elevators t began public consultation from Friday, February 4, 2022. The aim of the Ministerial Decision is the complete reformation of the provisions of the existing legislation in the context of our country’s European obligations, alongside the application of rules of healthy and equal competition in the business activity of the said sector which concerns the provision of maintenance services.

The consultation will last until Friday 25/02/2022.

Draft KYA – Text for consultation

Uncategorized

AADE: DIRECT PAYMENT CREDIT AND ISSUANCE OF NON-DEBT RECEIPTS!

A persistent problem in real estate transactions was that after a tax debt was paid there was often a delay of several days,until the payment “appeared” in the AADE system, so that the relevant certificate of non-debt can be issued. 

As the AADE Governor Mr. Giorgos Pitsilis informed us at the POMIDA Conference, the new way is now available to taxpayers payment of debts and arrangements, in myAADE (myaade.gov.gr) for direct crediting of payments and through the IRIS payment system, which literally zeroes out the time between the payment of the tax and the issuance of the certificate, which is often critical in transactions.

Now those interested can pay their debts through the online payment service IRIS, supported by DIAS (Interbank Systems) and in which Alpha Bank, Ethniki, Eurobank and Piraeus Banks participate.