Double justification of POMIDA’s struggle are the special arrangements for leases established by decision of the Governor of the Independent Public Revenue Authority, Mr. Giorgos Pitsilis, which will be published immediately in the gazette. The regulations are the result of POMIDA’s painstaking struggle in order to have the state recognize the loss of income of the owners due to the crisis and establish their partial compensation. With the decision of the AADE, the government’s commitment to tax exemption for owners who suffered a forced 40% reduction in rent due to the coronavirus, who thanks to the fight of POMIDA, will pay a lower ENFIA and/or income tax this year. The decision also foresees changes to the obligation to declare changes to rental offices on my TAXISnet only when this is necessary.

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:

The amendment of the Ministry of Finance to extend the regulation of the partial exemption from the obligation to pay rent was voted in the Parliament on Thursday, April 9 as article 26 of the bill for the sanctioning of the last PNP , by 40%, both in the case of professional leases and in the case of businesses, which have been severely affected by the epidemic of the coronavirus COVID-19, by virtue of the relevant decisions.

After repeated appeals by POMIDA, the Ministry of Finance finally announced that the deadline for payment of the certified D.O.Y. is extended until 31.8.2020. tax obligations of all property lessors whose rents are cut by 40%.