Also, Mr. Vesyropoulos announced the immediate satisfaction of POMIDA’s request that no court decision or injunctive relief be required for the postponement of taxation of the uncollected rents of 2020, but that extrajudicial notification is sufficient from the landlord to his tenant, so that they are not included for taxation in their total income. It is recalled that it has already been legislated that, at the request of POMIDA, all compensation amounts paid by the State due to the reduction of rents will also be tax-free.
Regarding the problems that have been observed with sublet properties, he emphasized that they will soon be resolved with relevant decisions.
Regarding the tax deduction for expenses incurred regarding receiving services for energy, functional and aesthetic upgrading of buildings, for the establishment of which POMIDA had taken the lead, Mr. Vesyropoulos said that the publication of the relevant decision is expected soon.
In his intervention, the President of POMIDA, Mr. Stratos Paradias, stated the following:
Mr. Ministers, we welcome you with great pleasure to the today’s meeting, organized by our organization in Thessaloniki, and framed mainly by our northern Helladic executives. This is the best proof that POMIDA is not only present in Athens…
The pandemic turned from the first moment the landlords of many property categories into “victims without KAD”, but also without compensation.
During the first two months of anti-pandemic measures, while it rained billions, the owners found themselves holding umbrellas… It took a lot of effort of POMIDA to highlight the need for compensation on the part of the owners as well. Fortunately, you are one of the first to realize that there must also be provision for the property lessors, who found themselves in a particularly difficult position for the following reasons.
The tenants Mr. Minister, they had the freedom to unilaterally impose their views, because they could pay a reduced rent, or even none at all, due to the non-functioning of the courts.
Tenants also never had a deadline to exercise their rights, forcing reductions in future rents, while landlords always had tight deadlines for submitting their COVID declarations.
Finally, while all kinds of tenants collected summarily and immediately every kind of allowance, refundable deposit and other aids, any compensation for the owners needs, even today, a long process to reach their account, without calculating the risk to get nothing due to some formal procedural defect.
Great victims of the process were the landlords who had made the mistake of giving the right to sublease or form a company to their tenants, or to believe their false claims that they are victims and beneficiaries of rent reduction, who after many months were informed that they are not entitled to any compensation.
Finally, great victims, Minister, are all those owners who today, 20 April they don’t have to go to their neighborhood supermarket, because they haven’t collected any of the four rents for 2021, either from their tenant or from the State.
In this problem, you know that our organization has always been the one that posed the problems to you, and suggested the solutions. Feasible and feasible solutions, without shouting and cursing. We know your interest, Mr. Minister, in the matter, we know the late nights you spent in your Ministry and you and all the political leadership and your partners, in order to answer these very difficult problems, and that is why we invited you to our event today, both to thank you for all this, as well as to provide us with information and a solution to our main issues and questions regarding the burning issue of rent reductions:
Immediate payment of all compensation due due to rent reduction.
Opening of the AADE platform for initial COVID declarations for the entire period from March 2020 to March 2021.
An immediate solution that effectively covers the lessors of sublet properties.
Deferral of taxation of uncollected rents 2020 without legal proceedings.
Extension of measures to defer outstanding tax obligations to affected owners
Information on the prospects of ending the forced rent reductions.
The president of POMIDA-UIPI participated in the meeting Mr. Stratos Paradias, POMIDA Vice President Volos lawyer Mr. Lia Kratira, POMIDA executives from Komotini lawyer Mr. Chrysa Kyriakousis and Ms. Veria >Iphigenia Vlachogianni and the General Secretary of POMIDA lawyer Mr. Tassos Vappas. The online meeting was welcomed by the President of the Bar Association of Veria Mr. Fotis Karavasilis.
Special speakers were Thessaloniki tax expert Mr. Theodoros Siozios, member of the Board of Directors ENIATH and Mr. Alkis Kofos, tax consultant of POMIDA, while the event was graced with his participation by the well-known tax technician and partner of POMIDA Mr. Giorgos Christopoulos.
Watch the video of this interesting conferencethrough the following links on Youtube and Facebook: https://youtu.be/1t11zDije_o I www.facebook.com/eniathgr I www.facebook.com/pomidagr .
Announcement of the Ministry of Finance on additional tax relief and facilitation measures for households and businesses.
At the same time as this event, the Ministry of Finance announced a new series of tax relief and facilitation measures for households and businesses. In an amendment submitted to the Parliament and which will be voted on immediately, the following regulations are included, some of which are requests of POMIDA, which in order of importance for property owners are as follows:
- The provision that rental income, which has not been collected by property owners, will not be included in their total income, with the only condition being extrajudicial notification by the owner to his tenant.
- The removal of taxation based on the objective criteria of living for those affected by the pandemic, since in one of the two (2) previous tax years there was no application of the alternative method of calculation of minimum taxation.
- The non-imposition, on the affected debtors and taxpayers over 60 years of age, of the additional tax arising if the declared amount with electronic transactions is less than 30% of real income.
- The provision for the possibility of paying ENFIA in six (6) equal monthly installments, with the first installment in September 2021.
Other measures in favor of taxpayers are the following:
- The provision for the possibility of paying the income tax of natural and legal persons for the tax year 2020, in eight (8) equal monthly installments.
- The provision of a 3% discount for natural persons, as long as the income tax return is submitted by 28 July 2021 and the tax due resulting from it will be paid in one lump sum until July 30, 2021.
- The possibility of timely submission of the declaration of natural and legal persons until August 27, 2021, with the payment of the first two monthly installments.
- The reduction, by half, for debtors who do not fall under the above case, of the additional tax arising for a declared amount with electronic transactions which exceeds 20% and falls short of 30% of the actual income.
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- The exclusion of extraordinary incomes from the determination of the real income on which the minimum amount of expenses is calculated with electronic means of payment.
- The extension of the possibility to choose to submit separate declarations of spouses until 6 May 2021.
