The protests of owners from Attica, but also other parts of the country, are intensifying for the multiplication of the ENFIA tax on owners from all over the countrywho have rights in properties worth more than 400,000 euros each, in relation to owners who own property of equal value but distributed among several properties of lesser value, but also those who have property exceeding 500,000€.

The situation is not rectified by the “firefighter” exemption of plots of land up to 5% which concerns a minimum number of owners, and, combined with the huge rise in property values, leaves tens of thousands more exposed to confiscatory overtaxation , who are called upon to finance in a bloody way the reductions of the balances…

As we emphasized, these arrangements violate article 4 of the Constitution which stipulates that all Greeks participate in the public burdens without discrimination and according to their strengths, which the Scientific Service of the Parliament also pointed out in its report. They also violate Article 21 for the protection of the family since they introduce a targeted burden of overtaxation of the family property, taxing each member of the family – an undivided co-owner, calculating an incremental rate as if each owned the entire property. 

In order to immediately solve the problem of 15-20,000 “trapped” citizens due to the inability of the state services (Municipalities and D.O.Y.) to issue the necessary documents, it seems that the competent government agents are oriented, following the letter from 11.4.2022 sent by the presidents of the property owners Mr. Stratos Paradias and the notaries Mr. Giorgos Rouskas, in order to give to the citizens who could not complete their real transactions until 31.3 .2022 due to the workload of the government agencies, the possibility of drawing up real estate transfer contracts until 31.5.2022 based on engineer’s certificates that were legally issued until 31.3.2022.

The text of the letter is as follows:

POMIDA sent a letter to the Governor of AADE, Mr. Giorgos Pitsilis, on the occasion of the announcement that the issuance of a decision is imminent which will facilitate the issuance of the VAT number of the management of apartment buildings without a deadline and without a fine, which he characterizes as important and especially timely in view of the submission of applications for subsidies for apartment buildings from the new “I SAVE”, and the resulting need to open management bank accounts and also for the allowance heating.  

With its letter, POMIDA presents two of our proposals concerning the management of apartment buildings in the hope of their adoption.

POMIDA sent a letter to the political leadership of the Ministry of Finance and the AADE on the occasion of the recent decision A.1225/2021 of the Governor of the AADE by which new deadlines are given for declarations of lessors of sublet properties , which inevitably foreshadows a new delay in the payment of compensations, but also the constant protests of real estate lessors and their tax experts from all over the country that their legally prescribed compensations have not been paid even though there is no formal omission on their part.

The Coordinating Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece (SESSE) and POMIDA issued the following announcement:

With the from 08.12.2021 joint request of the Plenary Assembly of the Bar Associations of Greece, the Coordinating Committee of the Notarial Associations of Greece, GSEVEE, OMCOE, OMASE and POMIDA, i.e. all the Bodies we are associated with transactions and legal transactions on real estate, we had pointed out in time the System’s inability to respond to the huge demand, caused mainly by the increase in property values ​​since the new year, for real estate transactions until the end of the previous year. In order for the system to be able to respond to the increased demand for real estate transfers within a reasonable period of time, we proposed a six-month extension of the current real estate transfer framework until 31.12.2021, pointing out that the Greek State has much more to gain from this extension, as it will collect income from the transactions that will be completed, while on the contrary, many unfinished notarial acts will be referred to the “Greek Calendars” as they will no longer be considered profitable for the transactions.