Breath for thousands of property owners brings the new legislation that provides for deletion retroactive debtn from cleaning and lighting fees for real estate that is not are powered.
Today, Many owners are unaware of the obligation to declare power outage in the municipality, which is required to stop municipal charges. This often leads to debt that citizens do not even know they have.
The legislation in force provides that the submission of a declaration of power outage to the Municipality concerned relieves the owner of the municipal cleaning and lighting fees only from the date of submission to the Revenue Service and not from the day of power outage! That is today, when it is interrupted rheumato A property and automatically ceases to issue electricity bills, citizens have been created over time the reasonable belief that the charge of municipal fees is automatically ceased, if they consider it in good faith that the power is automatically informed by the cash services of the respective municipality, as it should be.
That is why few know and submit a statement of interruption to the Municipal Revenue Services, so that, after years of requesting a non -debt certificate, they will then face excessive retroactive charges that will gradually reach 10 years, with huge surcharges, eg. Fifteen of the households, the retirement amount with the fine of 100% often exceeds the value of the property!) And with further consequences on them that neither citizens can accept and fulfill, nor can the administration continue to impose on their detriment.
In the Municipality of Athens, eg, the municipal fees of lighting and cleaning a residence of 100 sq.m. They amount to 165 euros a year, while for a store or warehouse of the same surface the municipal fees reach 650 euros a year. The fines imposed are twice as much for non -payment of fees, which means that for the store the hike reaches 1,300 euros a year and for the house of 330 euros a year. So if one has an underground warehouse of 250 sq.m. Xeno for a five -year period, that is, virtually worthless, will ask him to pay a municipal fees of 1,625 euros x 5 = 8,125 euros plus the fine!
Apartment owner of 80 sq.m. In Kallithea, who interrupted electricity without informing the municipality, he was found after two years with hundreds of euros in municipal fees and fines. Correspondingly, in the case of a professional property of 120 sq.m. In Piraeus, which remained closed for three years without electricity, the owner received several thousand euros.
Stelios Krailoglou