Another procedural issue, which however hindered the awarding and payment of compensations to many thousands of shop owners throughout the country, was resolved through the continuous negotiations and cooperation of POMIDA with AADE, while in the coming days the resolution of other problems than those pointed out by POMIDA in its reports is expected, also proposing the appropriate solutions.
With her letter to the Governor of AADE, Mr. Giorgos Pitsilis POMIDA thanked its executives and him for the functional upgrade of the Authority’s Leasing platform so that today the January and subsequent COVID declarations are submitted based on what the various rent reductions are actually entitled to categories of tenants. Also in the same letter, POMIDA recapitulated the further necessary improvements in the application and the main immediate requests of the landlords regarding the process and payment of their compensations from the rent cuts. The text of the letter is as follows:
Decision A.1030/2021 of the Ministry of Finance was published in the Official Gazette, which determines the procedure and conditions for the payment of the amount of the compensation of the landlords for the rents January – February 2021, as required by law in the context of dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
In a few days it will be a year of “cut” rents, and yet a large number of property owners, suffering these bloody cuts, which endanger their survival, are still to remain without offset, payment, or even a clear response to the March-December 2020 COVID declarations…
*To Alki Kofou, Tax Technical Partner of the POMIDA Member Information Office
The most serious problem that continues to hinder the completion of the process of declaration and collection of the compensations of a large number of real estate landlords from the ongoing rent reduction, is that related to the impossibility of depositing the compensation amounts into their bank accounts. A significant part of the non-completion of the compensation process is due not so much to the non-existence of a declared bank account of the beneficiaries in TAXISNET, but mainly to the non-observance of the rules governing the type and status of these accounts, so that the automatic transfer and deposit of the amounts of their compensations from the AADE payment mechanism.
Another request of POMIDA started to be implemented by AADE. As the journalist Mr. Prokopis Hatzinikolaou states in his article on the financial portal www.capital.gr , the AADE has started sending reply emails to 79,000 tax-paying property landlords who were “cut off” from compensation for “cut” rents, who although they had submitted their Covid declarations on time for reduced rents since March when the outbreak broke out pandemic until August 2020, they have not been compensated to date by the state, mainly due to false statements by their tenants that they are supposedly entitled to a reduction in their professional or residential rent as allegedly affected…
Article 7 of the amendment of the Ministry of Finance submitted to the draft law entitled “Payroll and human resources issues of the Independent Public Revenue Authority” amends its second article from 20.3.2020 Act of Legislative Content (A’ 68), which was ratified by article 1 of Law 4683/2020 (A’ 83), in order, for the cases of businesses for which measures of suspension or temporary prohibition of operation have been taken for in the month of March 2021, a full exemption from the obligation to pay rent should be provided.
No more “blind dates” in the COVID statements! The AADE platform for submitting COVID declarations for the month of January 2021 was opened tonight with significantly improved interactivity, as POMIDA had proposed three months ago, i.e. with simultaneous confirmation of their validity data, so as not to repeat the phenomena of submitting invalid declarations due to false claims by a portion of the tenants, or other errors when submitting them. According to AADE’s announcement, the platform will remain open for January’s COVID declarations until March 1st.
Government Gazette 538B’/11.2.2021 published decision A.1025/2021 of the Deputy Minister of Finance which precisely identifies the categories of businesses whose operation is either prohibited, for the mandatory exemption from the obligation to pay the total rent, or are classified as affected for their mandatory exemption from 40% of the total rent, for the months of January and February 2021. In this decision, after which the opening of the application of the AADE will follow for the submission of the COVID declarations for these months, the following are mentioned:
Regarding recent statements by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Christos Staikouras, regarding an imminent new reduction in ENFIA by 8%, which will obviously be accompanied by increases in the property zone prices based on of data collected before the pandemic and therefore today’s completely different reality in the real estate market has not been taken into account, in its letter POMIDA points out what must precede the planned changes in order to fundamentally restore tax justice and logic, but also to ensure the collectability of ENFIA.
The Thessaloniki Property Owners Association actively represents property owners, highlighting their issues and proposing solutions for their resolution, while also providing information and support to its members.
