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%.  

S.N. was filed. Article 22 of the Ministry of the Interior bill submitted to the Parliament for a vote defines the following in relation to municipal real estate fees:

Without supporting documents, queues, retrospectives and fines, declarations for municipal fees will be corrected or initially declared the areas of electrified or non-electrified properties in the electronic application that will be announced immediately by the Ministry of the Interior and the Central Association of Municipalities of Greece (KEDE)!

POMIDA informs the members of its unions and every interested property owner, that in response to key questions put to it in writing by the Deputy Mayor of Finance of the Municipality of Florina regarding with the new regulation of exemption from municipal taxes and fees for undeclared real estate surfaces, which was a proposal of POMIDA in the interest of the owners and also of the local authorities, gave the following answers of general interest:

Solution – redemption for hundreds of thousands of property owners across the country with wrongly declared area in the Municipalities, which exempts them from fines and retrospectives, but which will bring an immediate and significant increase in revenue of OTAs, was legislated yesterday with article 51 par. 2 of Law 4647/2019 (Government Gazette 204/A), of the Ministry of Health, on the initiative of the Minister of the Interior Mr. Panagiotis Theodorikakos!