This ground-breaking arrangement, which has been a persistent request of POMIDA for the last five years, gives the right to any property owner who has registered his property with a smaller area than the real, to correct it without the imposition of fines for the past, and without retroactive charges of many years, as provided by the relevant legislation, especially for arbitrary settlements.
The this regulation covers all types of taxes, fees and contributions to the Municipalities of the country, i.e. cleaning and lighting fees, TAP and municipal tax, and concerns all types of real estate, i.e. residences, shops, offices, warehouses, auxiliary and common areas of buildings and apartment buildings, craft and industrial and uncovered spaces, legally or arranged arbitrarily.
The deadline for submitting these declarations is until 31th March 2020, while the payment of the additional areas will start from 1.1.2020, whenever they are declared. This should be communicated by all Municipalities, throughout the country, because it will immediately increase their collections through PPC etc. providers.
POMIDA calls all owners properties in the country, and especially those who settled arbitrarily, to hurry to take advantage of this unique arrangement, to check through the electricity bills the declared area of their properties and to make any required corrective statements to the relevant Municipalities.
POMIDA also reminds that on 31.12.2019 the declaration deadline for vacant and non-electric properties expires, which so far has not been announced that it will be extended, as has requested from the competent Minister.
Finally, POMIDA reminds that it has requested to legislatively reinstate the five-year statute of limitations on debts to the Municipalities, as determined and legislated the day before yesterday and for the claims of the State with the new tax law passed in the Parliament.
The relevant provision of article 51 par. 2 of Law 4647/2019 (Government Gazette 204/A) specifically defines the following:
“The liable to submit a declaration to determine the surface area or the use of a property regarding the calculation of taxes, fees and contributions to the OTAs of the first degree, can submit a declaration with the correct data until 31.3.2020 without imposing fines for non-submission or submitting an inaccurate statement. Differences in the corresponding taxes, fees and contributions from the declarations of the previous paragraph are calculated and due only from 1.1.2020.”
