The need for businesses to reduce costs (and the rents they pay) at a time when economic activity has frozen is undeniable. POMIDA was the first to recognize this need. What is morally impermissible is that business aid is taken from the pockets of the owners. It is also unacceptable that the government is reserving – and doing well – relief and relief measures for the affected industries, with one and only exception: property owners who are not only not relieved, especially the consistent ones, but are burdened with a mandatory abatement of their incomes. It is as if the owners live in another world that does not suffer from the consequences of the coronavirus.
We wonder, what is the difference between a professional who loses 40% of his his state-mandated turnover and fits – well – into the support measures and a property owner who lives on the rent he collects and also loses 40% of his income but the government has really forgotten about him. We assumed – perhaps unfairly – that the era of silent pursuit and “crashing” of private real estate has passed.
As for the report that the owners are suspended for four months tax obligations, we repeat to the Ministry of Finance what it certainly knows but pretends to be ignorant of: that the tax obligations of the owners will start in July, after the liquidation of income and ENFIA.
which we hope the government will adopt even today is the reduction of ENFIA by 25% for all taxpayers, natural persons and businesses, who will manage to be consistent in their payment this year.
