POMIDA: Informing landlords about outstanding compensation for rent reductions due to COVID

POMIDA requested the issuance of an announcement informing the interested citizens about the planning of the settlement and payment of the compensations that are legally entitled due to the forced reduction or non-payment of rents due to the measures to deal with the pandemic, from the Ministry of Finance, that nine months have already passed since the end of the mandatory rent reductions and in view of the suspension of their new tax liabilities.

Also after the publication of Law 4926/2022, with article 121 of which a retroactive “ceiling” of 3% was imposed on professional rents, POMIDA requested that they take the necessary actions immediately so that the administrative fine of 100 euros is not imposed (article 54 KFD) in the relevant retrospective amendment statements of the lessors for the previous months of 2022.

The full text of the letter is as follows:

To the Minister of Finance Mr. Christos Staikouras

The Deputy Minister of Finance Mr. Apostolos Vesyropoulos

The Commander of AADE Mr. George Pitsilis

Here Athens, 28.4.2022

SUBJECT: Informing landlords about outstanding compensation for rent reductions due to COVID.

Exemption from fines for retroactive amending statements of landlords due to a ceiling of 3%.

Honorable Ministers, Commander, Christ is Risen,

Our organization receives daily questions and protests from real estate landlords and their tax experts, from all over the country, that, despite the enormous efforts made by the staff of your Ministry and AADE, the liquidation and payment is still pending. the compensation they are legally entitled to due to the forced reduction or non-payment of rents due to pandemic response measures, and the fact that they do not have clear information on the whole matter, even though nine months have passed since the forced rent reductions expired.

For these reasons, and in view of the fact that this year’s liabilities of ENFIA, as well as the Income Tax, are about to be posted, we are obliged to return to this issue, and to ask you to issue a notice informing the interested citizens about the stage where the whole above process is today, and specifically when it has been planned by your Ministry and the competent Authority:

1. Complete the clearance of COVID declarations and pay all other amounts of compensation, including those related to real estate subletting.

2. To open the application for submission of COVID correction declarations for the months of June & July 2021 because for this period only the initial declarations were given the opportunity.

3. To open the application for submission of corrections and declarations of COVID for the period March-October 2020, which is not only our permanent request but also a moral obligation of the State towards the citizens who were blatantly wronged by the inevitable initial operation of the declaration system at that time. and the false statements of their tenants.

4. To appear in the “Personalized Information” of the taxpayers any information that concerns them in relation to these outstanding issues and possible offsets with their new tax obligations.

Also, following the publication of Law 4926/2022, with article 121 of which a retroactive “ceiling” of 3% was imposed on professional rents, please take the necessary steps immediately so that the administrative fine of 100 euros is not imposed (article 54 of the Code of Civil Procedure). ) in the relevant retrospective amendment statements of the lessors for the previous months of 2022.

At your disposal for any clarification and cooperation ”