Empty houses are a serious problem in Tehran’s housing market

According to Tejarat News, empty houses are a serious problem in Tehran’s housing market these days.

Quoted from the world of economythe alarm of burning opportunity rang out from the empty houses in the courtyard of the Tehran City Council.

The discussion and exchange of opinions about tax policies in yesterday’s public session of the Tehran City Parliament led to the point where the Tax Affairs Commissioner openly declared that the empty house tax could not fulfill its regulatory role as expected.

The members of the Tehran city council yesterday confirmed and clarified the consequences of the real estate freeze and its effect on the housing rental market. One of the consequences of the free housing market is the deprivation of the rental market from the supply of units that can regulate the level of supply and demand in this market and establish the stability of the rental price. help.

However, due to the fact that the relevant tax identification and collection agencies have not been successful in collecting real estate taxes, practically the whole country and especially the city of Tehran, as one of the main centers of real estate speculation, have suffered from this opportunity burn.

This is while the city management has announced its readiness to immediately identify and collect income from property taxes with the systems it has.

The suggestion made by the head of the Planning and Budget Commission of Tehran City Council and repeated by some other members of the City Council was to entrust the collection of property taxes to the city administration. A proposal that is compatible with the global version of tax collection in the world.

In most developed cities, the collection of tax revenues in the field of real estate is left to local governments and municipalities, because only this institution has the most complete and detailed information about the state of real estate.

But in Iran, the slow process of tax collection of empty houses shows that the capacity of urban management in this field has been neglected.

Davoud Manzoor, head of the country’s tax affairs organization, was a guest of the Tehran city council yesterday, who came to the city parliament with the aim of explaining tax policies and strengthening interaction with the city administration.

In addition to the discussion and exchange of opinions about the collection of different types of taxes with different bases, as well as some disputes regarding the municipalities’ share of local taxes, this meeting was a place to sound the alarm about the ineffectiveness of the empty house tax and at the same time warn about the consequences of delay. Dropping the use of property taxes was effective.