Lack of exchange of information between the Ministry of Roads and registration of documents/people wandering in paying taxes for houses they do not own

According to the economic correspondent of Fars news agency, the review of the history of regulatory taxes in the field of housing market states that the effort to adopt tax policies in the field of housing had started before the revolution, reviewing the newspapers before the revolution shows that taxes were collected from empty houses, at least once a year. It reaches 1353.

In the years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, in 1375, which was the beginning of providing housing statistics, 73.4% of Iran’s population lived in real estates, 15.4% in rental units, and 11.9% in other units.

The statistics of 2015 show that the percentage of real estate units is 60.5, rental units are 30.7 and other units are 8.8. Currently, about 44% of households in Tehran are tenants; Therefore, the statistics explain that the situation in the housing sector is not very good.

The disorder of the housing market after the Islamic revolution prompted the government to raise the issue of collecting taxes from empty houses in 1366, which did not come to fruition due to the lack of sufficient tools. It became a law in 1395; Although the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development at the time headed by Abbas Akhundi did not believe in this effective tool in the housing market.

* Real estate system information is incomplete/people are lost

According to the progress made, the real estate and accommodation system was unveiled by the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development as a prerequisite for receiving taxes from empty houses in February 2018, and it was officially handed over to the Tax Administration by the government on May 26 of this year. However, there are still many uncertainties in the field of the aforementioned tax system and base.

In this regard, one of the most important ambiguities raised in this field is the non-adjustment of the information of the National Real Estate and Housing System with the real conditions, which has caused many people who have registered their information in the system to be faced with the problem. .

One of the audience of Fars news agency, referring to the receipt of a text message regarding the determination of tax on empty houses, told Fars reporter: Last year, I received a text message based on which I had to pay tax for an empty residential unit, while I paid this unit as Legally and officially registered in the office, I sold it two years ago

This contact, Fars, added: After filing a protest in the system of the Tax Affairs Organization that I am not the owner of the said house and we do not accept its tax to the real estate system and Accomodation I went to the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development and after registering the information of the new residence, I determined this empty house marked with a red mark and entered the information of “property transfer registration”, but there was no change in the status of the house and tax payment. Even though I entered the date recorded in the new owner’s one-page document in the relevant section, the system surprisingly gave a message that “no buyer’s information has been entered”, while this date is also written in the official one-page document. Yes, I have signed a document in the notary office in the name of the new buyer.

* When the Ministry of Roads asks people to go to the Real Estate Registration Organization and get information

This Fars contact added: This year, about a month ago, I received an SMS on the house taxHi I received an empty house and when I went to the system of the tax affairs organization to register a second protest, I found out that the tax that was declared last year for this empty house, which was wrongly registered in my name, has increased by 100% this year!

He continued: I again registered my protest that this house does not belong to me and that I sold it in 1997 in the tax affairs system, and I again went to the real estate and accommodation system so that the possibility of “registering the transfer of the property” may be provided. But I faced the same problem again and the system again announced that “no buyer’s information has been entered”.

This contact, Fars, continued: After the registration of the transfer of the property in the real estate and housing system was not successful, this time I went to the service desk of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development and the relevant expert, and there, the administrator told me: “Because the document registration organization did not give us the information about the property you sold, so we have registered the house in your name at the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development. Now, to solve your problem, you must go to the document and real estate registration organization and tell why this property is It is still connected to your national code and ask this organization to send us the information of this property.” The

According to him, Actually The exchange of real estate information and data, which should have been officially transferred between the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development and the Real Estate Registry Organization, is not done, and now people are asked to go and get the information from the Registry and bring it to the Ministry of Roads. Certainly, if this method continues, the identification of empty residential units will be very error-prone, and only a few people’s rights will be lost in this regard.

This Fars contact said: In the notice of the Tax Affairs Organization, it is stated that “in case of non-acceptance of the determined tax (including the property not being empty or lack of ownership), these persons will go to the portal of the real estate system by choosing the option of non-acceptance and choosing the reason.” and country housing belonging to the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development have been directed to register, modify or update their property information in the system; The only way to object to the levied tax is to do the above steps and all requests are reviewed in the system; Therefore, there will be no need for in-person referrals; It is obvious that the removal or adjustment of the announced tax is subject to the announcement of the modification or non-vacancy of the residential unit by the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development”; Now we don’t know what to do in this situation.

* Why regulatory taxes do not work in Iran

According to Fars report, one of the most important current shortcomings of the national real estate and housing system is the lack of information provided by the country’s institutions.

In this regard, Afshin Beikpour, an expert in the field of housing, referring to the issue of the national real estate and housing system said: There is non-cooperation of some devices to send data, in fact, some organizations and devices refuse to provide information for various reasons.

According to Parvinpour, for example The organization of document registration and municipalities does not provide the required information to the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development; In this situation, the government must be willing and obtain the required information from all the devices.

Therefore, according to the details mentioned, the report looks like, The document registration organization as well as the municipalities have missed the legal deadline for providing information to the National Real Estate and Housing System. On the other hand, it is surprising Why does the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, as a government agency, request people to personally go to the document registration organization and provide the information of the properties they do not own to this ministry.

Based on this, it seems that only if the current process changes, we can hope for the future of regulatory taxes in the country and the formation of a strong information bank.

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