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.

To the Minister of Employment and Social Affairs Mr. Kostis Hatzidakis, Entaytha         

Athens, 31.1.2021

SUBJECT: Establishing notification of housing landlords for work suspensions of their employees.

Dear Minister

Dear Minister

Thank you very much for your participation in the 38th POMIDA Panhellenic Congress, but above all for your immediate response, before the cameras of our Congress closed, to the requests that we brought to your attention during its conduct.

In view of the fact that we have reached January 21st and real estate landlords are facing a completely unclear situation in relation to what applies in terms of January rent payments and the return process of legal compensations, in a letter to the political leadership of the Ministry of Finance, POMIDA requested immediate changes in the regulations for the reduction of rents, pointing out the most serious problems faced by real estate landlords and proposing immediate measures to solve them. The content of the letter is as follows:

The continuous promotion in the media by every competent and incompetent, of the non-payment of rents by businesses that remained closed by state order during the festive period of December 2020 until today, January 15, has as a result, a significant number of tenants of other types of leases, mainly the “afflicted”, independent professionals, crafts, warehouses, etc., but also tenants of houses, declare to their landlords that they do not intend to pay anything at all for January and February 2021!

A detailed letter with the urgent problems to be solved immediately, as well as the pending institutional issues concerning real estate and the Local Government Organizations of our country, sent to the new leadership of the Ministry of the Interior POMIDA, requesting a meeting with her. The text of the letter is as follows:

P.OM.IDA sent a letter to the new leadership of the Ministry of Development regarding the launch of the Building Identity and the mandatory listing of the energy class of every publicly advertised property for sale or simple lease from 1-1-2021. Read the letter…

P.OM.IDA sent a letter to the Ministry of Finance, so that the government’s announcement to suspend the payment of the January rent by the businesses that remain closed by state order and payment of 80% of the rent to the owners from the state budget, to be a positive development (despite the loss of 20% of the income for the owners)…