POMIDA sent a request to AADE for the extension of two important deadlines that are of interest to property owners and expire on 30.6.2023, with an immediate response from AADE, since with the No. A1092/2023, the decision of the Governor of Mrs. Giorgos Pitsilis was extended by one month, i.e. until the end of the deadline for submitting tax returns (31.7.2023), the deadline for declaring the end of real estate leases.

POMIDA’s letter read as follows:

Extortion of retroactive municipal fees even since… 1958 imposed by the Ministry of the Interior and the Municipalities on property owners who during the transfer of properties the engineers discover some undeclared square meters, with the sudden cryptic amendment of the regulation for Municipal revenues passed by law 5027/2.3.23.

A few weeks before the national and the municipal elections, but also on the eve of the announcement of the “electronic property transfer file”, the relevant ministry and the mayors chose to surprise the property owners, by juggling quickly replacing during the debate in Parliament the regulation that had been put to consultation and submitted for voting with another completely opposite arrangement, with which they established the essentially inalienable nature of such debts, violating every concept of rational and good administration, and imposing retroactive charges of a confiscatory nature on unsuspecting citizens.

Another firm and persistent request of POMIDA is finally satisfied by the political leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and opens the way for many thousands of “blocked” notarial acts (purchases and parental benefits) throughout the country.

With the provision of article 232 of the draft law submitted to the Parliament on 1.3.2023 entitled “Renaming the Energy Regulatory Authority etc.” is given the option of both the urban development (subordination) and the modification of the composition of the horizontal ownership of apartment buildings by the interested co-owners regarding any difference in area between neighboring properties, without requiring the cooperation of the other co-owners of the entire building, which in practice is unfortunately unattainable. 

We also note that POMIDA’s request not to require the co-owners of the entire building to amend the deed of horizontal ownership is still pending and when the deviation of the actual dimensions of a of horizontal ownership does not exceed 2% of its floor plan area.

Three proposals of POMIDA to increase the supply of housing were presented by the president of the Federation, Mr. Stratos Paradias, during his intervention today in the competent Social Affairs Committee of the Parliament where the s.n. is discussed of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs “My house – housing policy for young people”.

Mr. Paradias stated that the bill in the right direction, because it does not adopt rent-based, but substantive measures, but it requested in addition:

1. Reduction of income tax on principal residence rents by ten units and on three applicable tax brackets, so that taxation is not only fairer, but also an irresistible incentive for housing to be made available for permanent, instead of short-term, rental.
   

POMIDA considers the extension of the 3% ceiling on commercial leases for 2023 to be “unilateral and socially unfair”, with a letter to the Prime Minister and the competent Minister of Development Adonis Georgiadis. POMIDA protests because the measure was announced without any previous discussion with the owners, and without any counterweight in their favor, when on the side of the professionals favored by this regulation, a lot of wealthy providers have been received and are being received measures to strengthen them.