In vacant and non-electrified properties, which still owe municipal cleaning fees & lighting despite their power interruption, which the law requires the citizen to declare to the relevant OTA, instead of DEDDIE which has a legal obligation. The aforementioned provision of 2005, for which we had a 20-year struggle, as interpreted by the Ombudsman, exempted the citizen regardless of the time of filing the statement, as long as it is true. The new provision, however, stipulates that after 31.8.2020, the exemption will start from the day of the declaration, and until then, the municipal fees will be assessed at the expense of the property owner!
This unacceptable and inapplicable premise must be abolished immediately, because it constitutes a real trap for the simple and unsuspecting citizen, to be charged with huge retroactive debts of up to 20 years, which in commercial properties with municipal fees five times higher than residential ones, will lead to their substantial “confiscation”! The same applies to properties that due to the crisis were never electrified. incomplete declarations, mainly in the region. With our proposal, the exemption from any retroactive charge until 31.12.2019 was instituted, for all areas declared now. Although the citizens’ response was massive, the results for the OTAs will multiply only if the AADE sends notices to all the TINs of owners of the country and Greeks abroad, as is done for the Land Registry. In any case, the possibility of declaration should remain open to citizens, since the big loser from its closure will be the OTAs of our country…
In the 20-year period now, statute of limitations for taxes, fees, rights and contributions to local authoritiesthat arise “due to non-submission by the debtors of the necessary data for their certification or submission of inaccurate or incomplete data or wrongly certified debts”, increased with the fines on the debts of the last five years (provision – “carmaniola”, article 32 of Law 4304/2014)!!! The statute of limitations should immediately be assimilated to the five-year period that applies to the State’s claims!
So, literally, if on 31.8.2020 close the KEDE platform, or undermine its reliability and effectiveness! It is a tool that literally came from the future, in which it must remain, as a channel of permanent connection between citizens and the local government, and to protect them from a “draconian” legislative framework at their expense.
*Stratos I. Paradias is a lawyer A.P. and President POMIDA & UIPI
