Property tax alerts Kosovo citizens

Citizens continue to express their concerns about property tax bills that have come at multiple prices higher than previous years.

Similar concerns come from a citizen from Pristina, where taxes had increased by about 700 percent more than he usually paid. Out of 9.93 euros of tax charges earlier for a 1-gold parcel, this year this taxpayer from Pristina has received bills of 69.71 euros. This resident from Pristina (known name for editing) says surprised at the high price that has been applied this year for property.

I don't understand why this bill is so expensive this year. It's about a parcel of only 1 gold in Pristina”, he has indicated.

By January of this year, Kosovo citizens have been hit with a staggering and abnormal increase in property tax -- an average of more than 100 per cent -- compared to the previous year. In addition to citizens, opposition parties and civil society, the Human Rights and Freedoms Council has reacted to increased property tax. KMDLNj, which has made the Ministry of Finance, led by Iron Murati, responsible for this increase.

The rise in property taxes, according to KMDLNI, is state robbery.

The Ministry, which is headed by Hekuran Murati, has full responsibility for this increase in property theft and addressed to municipalities, claiming that these means go to the municipal budget at the time the relevant ministry has responsibilities and that municipalities have no access or legal responsibility to interfere with the ministry's decisions. Currently, Kosovo citizens who are ruthlessly being robbed, whether by a discriminating decision by the ministry, or by the lack of municipal competencies to intervene in the appointment of a amount of property tax, are unable to protect the family and business budget, even greatly jeopardised by the overall economic crisis”, have been disclosed in the report.

Even the Kosovar Justice Institute has asked the government to suspend the increased property tax by 2025. The IKD has considered the decision made by the Ministry of Finance unfair.

The Finance Ministry's decision to double the property tax price has also been rejected by the country's citizens, though some have sought to pardon taxes of up to 200 euros for each taxpayer.

The LDK, through a resolution in the Assembly, had demanded that the Finance Ministry initially suspend realisation of property and property tax bills for 2023, be counted on according to preliminary assessment.

While, following the Government's proposal, the Commission for Business, Work and Transfere, two weeks ago it adopted in principle the draft law on real estate tax, amid numerous disputes by Finance Minister Hekuran Murati and opposition deputies. At Thursday's session of the Kosovo Assembly, MPs have failed to examine the draft law on change and implementation of the real estate tax that allows for forgiveness of up to 100 euros for any payment for 2023. Likewise, it is seen as an example by taxpayers that from 1,000 euros, 2000 or 5,000 euros in taxes, and the subsequent forgiveness of 100 euros is no support or support from the government.