To the Minister of Finance Mr. Christos Staikouras
JOIN: The Minister of Development Mr. Adonis Georgiadis
The Deputy Minister of Finance Mr. Apostolos Vesyropoulos
The Deputy Minister of Finance Mr. Theodoros Skylakakis
The Government Representative Mr. Stelios Petsa
There, 22.3.2002 0
SUBJECT: To be deducted from income tax & ANNIVERSARY rent reductions!
Dear Minister ,
and the rents of the main residence of the employees in these specific companies, whose employment contract has been expressly suspended due to the above measures and for this reason they are not paid, we point out that the same must also take care of the owners – lessors of the properties, whose income is substantially reduced without reducing their tax obligations!
The forced reduction of rents by 40% without any compensation at all, even a rudimentary compensation, as for everyone else, is a grave injustice which makes a large number of property owners in the country its victims, and especially those whose only means of survival is some rent, given that:
*The four-month suspension of payment of the current installments of tax obligations is without any object for consistent taxpayers since during this period there are no current tax obligations.
* ENFIA remains unchanged, sacrificing the promise of a new reduction 8 %.
*The income tax rate remains up to 45% plus a solidarity levy of up to 10%, and the combination of these two taxes acts as a means of “confiscation”.
*The suspension of the increase in objective values does not remove from the table the risk of adopting for 2021 the unrealistic estimates for increases of up to 50%.
Therefore, we ask you, Mr. Minister, to complete the above PNP by adding that the amounts by which rents are necessarily reduced by 40% according to the recent PNP, will be deducted from the amount owed in income tax and ENFIA 2020 of the taxable ownersso that the reduction and in essence the subsidy of the rents that you legislated, should be fairly borne by the society, and not be burdened exclusively and unfairly by the heavily taxed owners of the rented properties!
With special regard
The President, Stratos I. Paradias
The General Secretary, Tassos G. Vappas
