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Owners regret the maintenance of the aggravated IMI for vacant houses
The National Association of Owners (ANP) today criticised the maintenance of the increased IMI rate on houses considered vacant, considering that this way "the biggest problem" of empty houses remains unsolved.
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ANP's reaction comes after the Council of Ministers, which met extraordinarily this Monday to approve several measures within the scope of housing, namely the end of the coercive rental regime for vacant houses.
For this association of owners, chaired by António Frias Marques, "the main problem remains unsolved, since the confiscatory tax on floors considered vacant remains, whether they are intended for housing or for any economic activity", without taking into account "the reason and the uninhabitable or degraded state in which most of the 700,000 places considered vacant are found".
In a statement, ANP points out that the law contemplates an increase that can go up to 10 times the normal IMI rate, reaching 20 times more at the end of five years when urban pressure zones are involved.
In view of this situation, the association says that it will "immediately" request hearings with all parliamentary groups, "requesting the revocation of the aggravated IMI on places considered vacant and that do not generate income".
IMI rates are set annually by local authorities within a range that, in the case of urban buildings (buildings and land for construction), is set between 0.3% and 0.45%, but includes increases for vacant and ruined houses.
Thus, for vacant properties in general, the tax rates "are raised annually to triple in the case of urban buildings that have been vacant for more than a year [...]".
In practice, this means that the owners of vacant properties may be called upon to pay a rate of, for example, 0.9% on the property value instead of 0.3% - this being the rate chosen by the municipality for most situations.
In the case of vacant properties located in urban pressure zones, the increase in the rate is greater, with the law determining that it "is increased tenfold, increased by 20% in each subsequent year".
The IMI Code also provides for increased rates for ruined houses - contemplating values similar to those of vacant properties in urban pressure zones and others.
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