“Those liable to submit a declaration for the determination of the 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 information until 31-3-2020, without the imposition of fines for not submitting or submitting an inaccurate declaration. Differences in the corresponding taxes, fees and contributions from the declarations of the previous paragraph are calculated and due only from 1.1.2020”.
POMIDA INVITES everyone the property owners of the country, i.e. those who have long since declared the area of their properties to the Municipalities, those who have recently settled arbitrarily, but also those who have undeclared area for any reason, to hurry to check through the electricity bills the declared area of the properties their properties and to make timely any required corrective statements, in order to benefit from this unique regulation, the extensive application of which will give Municipalities the opportunity to reduce municipal fees for all citizens. It also calls on the owners of vacant and non-electrical properties to declare them to the relevant Municipalities, so that municipal fees are not charged both for the past and for the future.
For the information of its members and every interested property owner, POMIDA lists a Decalogue with the basic questions and answers to the above topics:
- Who is a beneficiary under this regulation?
Each owner of a building or plot of land who has not registered it with the relevant OTA as well as each owner who has declared it with a smaller area than the real one, such as apartments, single-family houses, shops, offices, warehouses, auxiliary areas of buildings and apartment buildings, craft and industrial and uncovered areas, legally or arranged arbitrarily.
- Which real estate surfaces are subject to this regulation?
This regulation expressly covers indicatively the surfaces of properties that were incompletely declared, surfaces of properties that were never declared for submission to municipal taxation and also surfaces of properties that were never electrified.
- What is he entitled to do and why?
To submit a statement with full and correct details of the surfaces of all his properties, electrified and not, with which he will be freed from all retroactive debts of many years and from any fine or surcharge, as provided by the relevant legislation, especially for the settlements of arbitrary properties.
- From which categories of taxes and fees does this regulation retroactively exempt?
The this regulation covers all kinds of taxes, fees and contributions to the Municipalities of the country, i.e. the municipal cleaning and lighting fees, the Property Tax (TAP) and the municipal tax.
- Where and how should these declarations be submitted?
These declarations must be submitted to the revenue services of the relevant Municipalities. Those interested must present and submit photocopies of their title deed, settlement title (if any), their E9 from which their VAT number is derived, recent electricity bill and their police ID.
- By when must these declarations be submitted?
The deadline set by this provision is until March 31, 2020.
- From when will the charge for the additional areas to be declared start?
The charging of municipal taxes and fees of the additional areas will start from 1.1.2020, whenever these are declared.
- What will happen if the additional areas are not declared on time?
After end of the voluntary declaration deadline, the previous provisions that provided for retroactive debts with fines will come into force again, which will be activated either when the cross-checking of the DEDDIE data with the E9 data, to which the local authorities of the country now have access, begins, or when the interested owner or his heirs request a certificate of non-debt TAP for transfer, parental provision or acceptance of inheritance of the property.
- What will happen to those who submitted declarations before the publication of the above law, and the relevant amounts of municipal fees were confirmed against them?
With regard to debts from differences in declared real estate surfaces, which were confirmed by the voluntary attendance of the interested parties, the Minister of the Interior Mr. Pan. Theodorikakos stated that for reasons of equality of the citizens and especially of the consistent ones who volunteered to declare them, with an interpretive circular that will be issued immediately by the Ministry of the Interior, the collection of the specific debts will not be requested, since they have not already been paid to the Municipalities.
- What about declarations for vacant and non-electric properties?
In response to POMIDA’s memorandum from 5.12.2019 for extending the deadline for submitting declarations for vacant and non-electrified properties, but also for a permanent solution to this problem, the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Panagiotis Theodorikakos, stated that he would take the initiative to give legislative extension until June 30, 2020 of the deadline for submitting declarations for vacant and non-electrified properties, which ended on December 31, 2019. At the same time, the possibility of a permanent solution to this problem will be examined.
