Data registered so far has shown that thousands of taxpayers have failed to correctly fill out their returns concerning the new joint property tax (ENFIA) by either giving wrong or deficient data. As a result, many taxpayers will be faced with heftier taxes than they expected to pay. The General Secretariat of Public Revenue has pinpointed problems and has made arrangements for tax offices and citizens to rectify these.

The first problem concerns deficient data on E9 statements which register the full extent of each taxpayer’s real estate properties. Areas not filled out are merely nulled and treated as non-submitted tax statements. New rules to fix this problem will be posted on TAXISnet. Taxpayers will need to carefully read the instructions so that they can proceed with corrections by November 30.

A second decision concerns 11 cases of common mistakes made on E9 statements that currently have resulted in heftier taxes for taxpayers.

Some of these include:

* In cases where the usufructuary’s date of birth is left empty, “full ownership” of a property is assumed with higher taxes for the taxpayer.
* In cases where there is no indication of co-ownership, both owners pay 100% tax ownership on a property.
* In cases where the storey of an apartment owned is not given, the highest possible tax for 6th-floor ownership is placed on the property.
* Heftier taxes are placed in cases where only a two-digit number has been filled out in the date of birth for the usufractuary.
* In cases where there is a right in rem, there is a steady 0.80 price for usufruct regardless of the reported birth year of the usufructuary on the tax declaration.
* In cases where the location of farm land is identified only by the county without specific details, then this obtains the highest primary key value of land (ABA) of the area stated.