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Real estate tax
Housing of Muscovites will be taxed at the same rates
The capital's legislators have decided not to raise property taxes for now. The bill “On Personal Property Tax Rates,” adopted yesterday by the Moscow City Duma in the first reading, retained the same figures. That is, next year, owners of residential premises whose total inventory value does not exceed 300 thousand rubles will have to pay 0.1% of the cost. If the apartment is valued in the range from 300 to 500 thousand rubles, - 0.2%. Over 500 thousand - 0.3%. For non-residential premises: costing from 300 to 500 thousand rubles. -- 0.3%, over 500 thousand rubles. -- 0.5%.Initially, however, the deputies were determined to change the taxation scheme. Moreover, a very successful occasion turned up: by separating, as required by federal legislation, the criteria for taxation of movable and immovable property of individuals, and at the same time raising rates. With movable property - cars, boats, yachts, snowmobiles, etc. - this was done without complications. According to the capital's legislators, it would be worth raising taxes on privatized housing. Or calculate the tax rate based on the market value of apartments, and not on the BTI assessment. “On average in Moscow, the BTI assessment has already grown to two-thirds of the market value, but in some areas there are still incidents,” one of the authors of the bill, deputy Vladimir Gruzdev, explained to the Vremya Novostey newspaper correspondent. - For example, an apartment on Leninsky Prospekt in a building from the 60s has a very high market value, but the BTI will value it much lower, citing 40 years of depreciation. It's not fair."
But the deputies were persuaded not to rush by the first deputy head of the department of economic policy and development of the Moscow government, Valery Zharov. He recalled that the current tax rates on buildings, premises and structures owned by citizens were established by the Moscow City Duma a year ago and came into force only on January 1 of this year. Therefore, they should remain unchanged in the new bill.