IN JUSTICE THE CASES OF DESTRUCTION OF SUPPORT MEASURES!
Better late than never!!! The Ministries of Finance and Labor and Social Affairs are sending to the Court of Justice cases of possible circumvention of measures to support the economy and society from the consequences of the corona virus, the victims of which are not only the State, but also a large number of lessors of real estate and mainly houses in across the country, who suffered unfair wage reductions from virtual suspended positions of workers who are working normally, in collusion with a portion of employers. An investigation has already been ordered and is being carried out specifically for this specific type of circumvention, which was widely used in the province where controls were rare or even non-existent, and was limited only after the immediate intervention of the Minister of LabourMr Kostis Hatzidakis strong>immediately after this year’s POMIDA Panhellenic Congress where we raised the issue, which banned the retroactive positions of suspended employees.
KYA FOR 40% OFF BUILDING UPGRADE COSTS!
Another proposal of POMIDA is on its way to implementation, with a long delay, and not to the extent we had proposed so that it could effectively contribute to the energy and functional upgrading of its buildings of our country, for which there is a huge need.
KYA 1090/2021 (Government Gazette 1636/B/22-04-2021) was finally published in the Government Gazette which determines the conditions, terms, procedure and any other necessary detail for the implementation of the provisions of article 39B “Tax deduction for expenses related to receiving services for energy, functional and aesthetic upgrading of buildings” of Law 4172/2013, regarding the application of the deduction from the personal income tax of the costs for receiving energy, functional and aesthetic upgrading services of buildings carried out during the year 2020.
ADVANCE MARCH COMPENSATION: DECLARATION OF COVID BY MAY 14!
The AADE platform will be opened immediately for the submission of a COVID declaration for the compensation for the month of March 2021, until Friday, 14.5.2021, according to the decision GDOU 400/2021 of the Ministry of Finance, which determines the more specific procedure and the conditions for the advance payment of the amounts of the lessors’ compensation for the rents for the month of March 2021, which was already published in the Official Gazette B’ 1613/20-04-2021.
According to article 3 (Procedure for submission of “Covid Declaration” and procedure for recovery of amounts) of this decision, the beneficiary of compensation collection for the month of March lessor/sublessor, regardless of whether he received the advance payment of article 2 hereof, he is required to submit a declaration of rent change (“Covid Declaration”). If he is paid compensation in advance but does not submit a “Covid Declaration” by 14.5.2021, the amount paid to him becomes due and the process of seeking him as unduly paid will be determined by a new decision that will be issued within a month. Also, with a new decision, the procedure for paying the amount of compensation to new beneficiaries for the month of March who had not submitted a “Covid Declaration” will be determined (apparently for February 2021).
UNCOLLECTED RENT 2020: POSTPONEMENT AND WITH EXTERIOR HARASSMENT OF THE TENANT!
Law 4797/2021 “State aid to businesses and non-profit organizations for emergencies, emergency arrangements to support the economy, supplementary state budget and pension arrangement and others” was published in the Official Gazette urgent provisions”, with all the important changes in income taxation as well as other important provisions.
Article 32 of the Law will not be taken into account specifically for the tax year 2020 , in the lessor’s total income, the income from real estate leasing, which has not been collected by the beneficiary, in the event that by the deadline for submitting the personal income tax return, the lessee has been notified of an out-of-court termination of the lease, due to non-payment of the rent or extrajudicial nuisance, for the payment of the due rents.
CH. STAIKOURAS: 200 MILLION COMPENSATION TO PROPERTY LANDLORDS!
ENFIA IS IRREVOCABLE FOR 2021
For the immediate payment of compensations amounting to 200,000,000 euros to the real estate lessors who suffered cuts in their rents, the Minister of Finance Mr.Christos Staikouras informed the president of POMIDA, Mr. Stratos Paradia. Also, the Minister informed the president about the acceptance of POMIDA’s request to postpone the taxation of uncollected rents for 2020 with the only condition being the notification of an out-of-court summons to the debtor tenants, i.e. without requiring the issuance of a court decision, an order for the payment of rent, or even filing a tenancy lawsuit in the competent court.
EXTENSION OF THE 100% REDUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL RENT FOR APRIL!
With an amendment tabled in Parliament, to the bill entitled “State aid to businesses and non-profit organizations for disasters, emergency arrangements to support the economy, supplementary state budget and pension regulation”, the exemption from the obligation to pay the total rent is extended for the month of April 2021 and for the month of April 2021 (applied for the months of January, February, March), of the employees of a professional lease for the establishment of the designated business, for the which have taken special and extraordinary measures to suspend or temporarily ban operations for preventive or repressive reasons related to the coronavirus or which is financially affected due to its spread.
THE ACCESS OF OWNERS AND PROFESSIONALS TO THE DETAILS OF THE ESTATE IN PILOT OPERATION!
Another timeless request of POMIDA is coming true, with a delay of about 23 years. The joint ministerial decision was published in the Official Gazette, which was signed by the ministers Mr. Kyriakos Pierrakakis and Giorgos Tsiaras and the Deputy Minister responsible for Land Registry Mr. Giorgos Stylios, which determines the graded access rights of engineers, notaries, lawyers and citizens to the cadastral data of the Land Registry and Mortgage Registries.
Already with the original Law on Land Registry 2664/1998 there was a provision for the access of the owners and the professionals involved to the cadastral data of the Land Registry and the Mortgage Registries. All these years this legislative absence, which was covered with circulars, often contradictory and contradicting each other, has created friction between professional branches, mainly between engineers and lawyers and of course problems, delays and financial burdens for citizens.
POMIDA TO FINANCE: PROPERTY OWNERS’ CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATIONS, INCOME TAX & DEFENSE!
POMIDA sent a letter with requests to solve ten current problems that concern property owners to the financial staff of the government and the AADE.
POMIDA requests with its letter that the payment of compensations for January 2021 be completed and that the payment of compensations for the months of February and March 2021 be carried out before Easter, that all fields be opened in the application of the AADE for the correction of errors of the 2020 period, to announce when, after Easter, the platform will be opened for retroactive corrections of payrolls and for initial declarations of COVID 2020 and January-February 2021, to issue in a single decision all the case-by-case and monthly corresponding KAD of affected and closed businesses and to solve the problem of compensation for owners with sublet properties.
POMIDA TO REGISTRY: EXPANDING ELECTRONIC SERVICES AND REMOTE CONTROL OF DOCUMENTS!
To immediately give those involved in real transactions, legal and technical representatives of citizens (lawyers, notaries, engineers, bailiffs) the possibilityto carry out remote control of the entries of the National Land Registry, from their offices, using their special identification code, so that they are not required to go each time to the headquarters of the land registry office with all the delays that this entails, so that real transactions can be accelerated as much as possible, POMIDA requests in a letter from the political leadership that is responsible for the National Land Registry. He then requests that ordinary citizens be given the right to access the cadastral records of the assets they own.
RESIDENTIAL RENT REDUCTION: ONLY APPLICABLE TO SUSPENDED WORKERS!
From various mainly touristic areas of the country, we have been receiving constant complaints from homeowners who rent them out to hotel and room-for-hire employees, who are not suspended from work, but subsidized as unemployed, that their tenants proceed to arbitrarily reduce their rents. Professionals of various categories also claim a rent reduction for the rents of their homes. In view of the above, POMIDA clarifies the following:
