POMIDA points out the current outstanding issues, as well as its proposals for solving some problems that remain from the implementation of this process.
At the same time, POMIDA thanks the Governor of AADE, Mr. Giorgos Pitsilis, for satisfying its request that the data and VAT number of the lessee concerned by each statement appear in the application of the Lease Information Statements, making it significantly easier everyone involved with these statements. But it requests an extension of the deadline for declaring the termination of old leases at the same time as adding the option “Active Leases” to the relevant application, so that taxpayers are not threatened with unfair penalties for undeclared terminations of old leases.
The full text of the letter is as follows:
To the Minister of Finance Mr. Christos Staikouras,
The Deputy Minister of Finance Mr. Theodoros Skylakakis
The Deputy Minister of Finance Mr. Apostolos Vesyropoulos
The Governor of AADE Mr. Giorgos Pitsilis
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Dear Mr. Ministers, Mr. Governors,
On the occasion of yesterday’s decision A.1225/2021 of the Governor of AADE, by which new deadlines are given for declarations by lessors of sublessees properties, which inevitably portends a new delay in the payment of compensations, but also the constant protests to us from 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, we highlight the following pending issues, as well as our proposals for solving some of the problems that remain from the implementation of this process:
- The liquidation must be completed and all outstanding amounts of compensation from the last months must be paid, especially those related to real estate subletting. A necessary condition for the correction of the Covid declarations is for those involved to be informed by the AADE of the type of mistakes that each has made. The updates posted so far are up to April 2021 without giving a clear picture of how to fix the bugs. Especially in the cases of Subletting, the lessors do not know to whom their tenant has sublet the property and whether the conditions of E.2123/2021 apply.
- Open the application for submitting corrections and declarations of COVID of the period March-October 2020, which is not only our constant request but also the moral obligation of the State towards the citizens who were wrongedby the lack of information at that time.
- To open the application for submitting COVID declarations for the months of June & July 2021because for this period of time only the opportunity was given for initial statements.
- Decisions should be issued immediately for theKAD months of August and September 2021,or even a notice that there is no longer any right to reduce rent, since several tenants are even now refusing to pay their rents or part of them, on the unproven claim that they still have a right rent reduction!
- In the “Personalized Information” of taxpayers who know that they are entitled to offset of last year’s remaining compensations from rent reductions from this year’s tax obligations (income and ENFIA) no one appears at all automatic settlement! Therefore, on the AADE platform, either the offsetting amounts and the remaining payable amount of tax should be immediately displayed and removed from the “Personal Information”, or at least an announcement should be issued immediately on the method and time of the automatic offsets of the of last year’s compensations with the new debts, before all the deadlines for paying the income and ENFIA installments expire!
On this occasion we consider it our obligation to thank the Governor of AADE Mr. G. Pitsili for satisfying our request in the application of the Lease Information Statements to appear the details and the tax identification number of the lessee to whom each declaration relates, making it easier for all those involved with these declarations.
However, with regard to lease termination notices, we again request an extension until AADE’s Leases application is added and the “Active Leases” option (in yellow only for the initial and amending lease declarations and not for the COVID declarations), before activating the automatic completion of the Form E2 for the declaration of the Leases, so that the taxpayer to immediately find already inactive leases and declare their solution without being subject to unjust fines for this. =”text-align: justify;”> The President The Secretary General Stratos I. Paradias Tasos G. Vappas p>
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