Ensure the validity of the reduction in the rent of commercial housing tenants and the tax relief of their lessors, the Member of Parliament of the New Republic Vassilis-Petros Spanakis requests, with a Parliamentary Question tabled today to the Ministers of Finance, Development & of Investments and Labor & of Social Affairs etc. Staikouras, Georgiadis and Vroutsis.

A necessary condition for implementing the 40% rent reduction provided for by the PNP to deal with the coronavirus crisis is the submission of a responsible declaration by all professional tenants without exception to “ERGANI “, with the name and VAT number of the owner and the address of the property. This is pointed out by POMIDA in a relevant circular, underlining that if the declarations are not submitted, the tenants lose the 40% discount and owe the entire rent, and the owners lose all relief, and therefore ultimately there will be unnecessary counterclaims or even legal disputes between the two-sided.

Read the article in which Giorgos Christopoulos, Tax Technician – Economist, author of tax aids, former TEI professor and Stratos Paradias, Attorney AP, President and UIPI, analyze why the declaration in the “ERGANI” tax register is mandatory for all professionals, who are entitled to a reduction of 40%, even if they do not employ staff…

Interventions for the rents of students who study away from their place of permanent residence and for the extension of the measure of financial support of 800 euros, announced the Ministry of Finance, but at the same time officially confirmed for the first time that it is “considering the introduction of favorable tax arrangements for property owners, who are paid only 60% of the rent, based on the measures which implements.”.  This statement justifies the unrelenting struggle of POMIDA, which is taking place these days, in relation to the measures for the corona virus.  The announcement of the Ministry of Finance states the following: