Of Chrysostom Chufi

It is difficult to remember at least a recent case of measure – in common confession in the right direction – such as rent refund But up to € 800 that has caused so many difficulties/reactions to so many people.

First it was the tax -accountants who were in April in front of new data in relation to what they knew until then, must have compulsorily completed Code 081 as a prerequisite for the return. Their reactions, even demanding an extension in the submission deadline tax returnsled the Treasury first to allow until September 30 to amend the statements to complete the famous code and then turn the obligation into a strong recommendation.

Now it’s the turn of the real estate to protest. The law passed a few days ago stipulates, among other things, that the rent must be paid through the bank. If not, the tenant is punished with an obligation to return the aid and exclusion from the rest of the government’s housing policy. However, the owner of the property is also punished with a deprivation of 5% deduction in taxable income from rents that are now in place and here’s the owners. Indifferent to the fact that in many cases it is the owners who demand or even oblige the lawyers not to pay through banks but “in hand and black”, the Pomida He complains that the owners are punished for something that is exclusively attributed to tenants.

Putting this asterisk, the owners’ announcement really has many points that need to be tackled by the Ministry of Finance, otherwise the regulation warns not only will not enhance tax transparency as its aim but will cause friction and tensions between tenants and owners.

POMIDA mentions various examples in which he estimates that the owners are punished for the abusive behavior of tenants:

Example 1 : The lessee categorically refuses to pay banking for his own reasons.
However, the owner will have no immediate and practical way to force him into a bank payment, whether the new law or even the lease agreement provides for them.

EXAMPLE 2: The lessee pays bank leases but always with a delay of 1-2 months. A common phenomenon, for which the owner shows understanding, but not the system, which, by “seeing” only 10 months’ rents, will believe that the owner has received the other two rents “in hand” and punish him with a “hike” of 5%!

Example 3 : The lessee pays the rents delayed, in installments, at naughty dates and amounts, often together and with communal payments. Even more common, in the end those interested finds themselves, but the system will not be able to identify the bank payments here.

EXAMPLE 4: The lessee pays the rents normally to an authorized professional rental office or to the property management operation, or to the lawyer, or a relative of the lessor because he is a province or abroad as tens of thousands of others, or for any other reason. However, the system will not “see” banking backgrounds in the owner’s account and punish him with a loss of 5%.

The Federation calls for the removal of the arrangement – days after it has been voted on – and also proposes a number of more interventions:

  • The addition of a third paragraph to Article 210 which explicitly provides that “the tenant’s refusal for appropriate banking banking is assimilated by non -payment and gives the lessor the right to terminate the lease and request that the lease can be effectively claimed.”
  • The exemption from the measure of owners and tenants who have reached 70 years of age with disabled with 80% of disability
  • The exemption of monthly rents of up to € 500, at least for a two -year transitional period until 31.12.2028, so that until then the problems that will undoubtedly have been highlighted and resolved.
  • Establishing the amount of rent up to the amount provided for as unnecessary for salaries and pensions, because the seizure of rents especially by people who have no other income will create a serious social problem that cannot be ignored.
  • The ability to deposit the rents and in an account of a third, natural or legal person, authorized by the landlord.
  • The ability to pay for rents and through the IRIS direct and inexpensive payment system different tenants and landlords will be exposed to uncontrolled monthly bank supplies.