Sunday, November 13, 2011

How dangerous a new tax on the excess housing?

The Ministry of Finance a draft law on the taxation of citizens who have excess floor space. Amount that the good citizens are paying for the apartment seemed too meager financial department. And now officials from 2013 suggest a minimum basic tax rate of 0.1% of the value of the property. And it's a sort of godly, as proposed levy to one percent. Background And everything is nothing, if the tax, as before, was calculated to assess the BTI. But the whole "bomb" is a couple of years it will have to pay based on market value of the apartment. This innovation, according to estimates of experts, will lead to a sharp increase in tax payments. Especially for owners of the Moscow square meters, which in Russia are considered the most expensive. The market price of the apartment, on which tax will be charged directly will depend on the results of its evaluation. For example, with an average capital of the owner "kopeck piece" worth 5-7 million rubles. is already charged, not 2-3 thousand, and 5-7. And the owners of apartments in the Central district of the capital, where prices start at $ 8 thousand per square meter, and the owners of which had been on a lot of pensioners and low-income people who got housing through inheritance, will go under. Meanwhile, "gift" does not fell from the sky itself. According to Irina Shugurova, Deputy Director General of "Miel Brokerage" on legal matters, the possibility of introducing a single tax on the property being discussed since 2003. By the assumption of its developers, it should replace the three taxes: a tax on personal property, corporate property tax, and finally land tax. Further development of the issue was March 1, 2008, when the Act came into force on the state real estate cadastre. "If you had land and buildings, each government agency considered in its tariffs, - says the speaker - the BTI - a separate building, in the Cadastral Chamber - a separate land parcels, it is now required by law to treat all together to the land and building were one property of the property . Following the approval of the cadastral value of the property is a single from it and there will be tax. " But work on the formulation of all objects on the cadastre is enormous and will take more than a year, especially as the method for determining the value of the land is still being finalized. And how much work will last is hard to say. After this there is a certain order: first carried out cadastre, cadastral valuation is then and only then begin the procedure of approval of inventory valuation. Only after will be counted, placed on record, assessed all the facilities in each district, county, region and country officials will approve the results of the evaluation itself, it will be possible to charge the tax. In the meantime, the tax on houses, apartments, garages and other real estate is charged under the law "On taxes on personal property" from the December 9, 1991 № 2003-1 (as amended), as well as other regulations. According to this act shall pay a tax not only all the decent Russians and foreigners, the unemployed and even minors (through their parents or guardians). Of course, some categories of citizens, heroes, people with disabilities, members of the Civil (were you?) And the Great Patriotic War, the military provides for concessions. By law, if not altogether exempt from all tax payments, they can expect a 50 percent discount. But everyone else will have to shell out for what is called in full, but still accessible to the program. Who are the judges? "The main problem in the time of the new law on taxation, - says Sergey Winkies, Head of Marketing and Development Group of Companies" Conti "- is an assessment methodology. Interestingly, the expert real estate market and has not developed a general agreement on this issue. So, what criteria will be assessed property, while not at all clear. Another problem - in the property. Many residents of the Russian privatized apartments "superfluous" areas, but in times of crisis, their income has fallen sharply. Some have lost their jobs, others have retired, become disabled, and, of course, that if adopted by the "draconian" law, pay the surplus to the full they can not. " How would they be? Move down from the apartment in which they were born and raised? It seems that way. There is a third important point, is now in the country real estate. For example, when assessing the holiday home ownership market for a new law, its current value may differ significantly from the original purchase price. I bought a man on a vacant lot and house with bare walls, and with their own money for years settled in it, repaired, built fences, porches, paved communication, ennobled area, the area beyond. In short, his penny and work day and night and increased the liquidity of the market value of homeownership. And the result is such that all its efforts will be taxed. Experts today predicted that conflicts can arise here more terrible than they were at elimination of houses in the village "Rechnik." It is clear that rural property should be assessed in a special way, and other standards. The introduction of property tax is considered as a measure which will reduce the amount of speculation in the market that supposedly only increase the cost per square meter. "And in fact, - says Anna Levitov, managing partner EVANS, - now in our country, real estate appraisal is carried out as if blind. The real cost of the apartment, on which there was the deal, known only to its members. The thing is that Russia, unlike in many Western countries, there is no open source information from which to obtain data on the present market price. Indeed, the Federal Registration Service, fixing the real estate transactions, is in no hurry to disclose information about them, as is done in other states. " But even if the steps to the disclosure will be made, it is unlikely c can be very accurately determine the real value of the property. So far, more than half of transactions in Russia are at their nominal value when the contract of sale shall include the amount of one million rubles, or, more rarely, some other, considerably below the actual cost. In assessing the apartments and houses by an independent expert speculation, of course, be many times smaller. Nevertheless, the introduction of the tax in the form in which it offers officials, raises many problematic issues. Indeed, by the statements of lawyers today is hard to determine exactly who and what exactly has. And as long as there is no single inventory and while the state will not understand that and to whom belongs the introduction of such a tax is inappropriate. Although the entire civilized world pays a single tax on ownership of real estate. What to do? "Of course, some criteria for evaluating the real estate market of Moscow region still formed. At least, one or more objects in the city, and in the region, broken down by class and segments: luxury, premium, plus business, business, economy, - says Irina Shugurova. - Identify and approximate range of prices within a particular class. " Simply this is the case with new houses within the Garden Ring. But how to assess the housing, for example, in Stalin's homes, where still there are many communal apartments? What class include Brezhnev's "tsekovskuyu" building that looks ugly, but with different layouts? Whole host of issues. And those who disagree with the assessment would be a lot of people. Although, if one or the other owner does not agree with the amount of tax, of course he can go to court and defend their interests before the end. "Unbearable" after the privatization of the apartment you can rent and use the proceeds to pay not only taxes but also to live in a comfortable house in the countryside or take a smaller area in Moscow. Finally, you can sell a generic apartment on Tverskaya or Clean Ponds, and buy a flat in the printer or Kapotnya. At that time, and money for a comfortable life left. Councils can give a lot, but that's not all like them to come. One way or another, but it is clear: the new property tax in the first place hit by the poor.

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