No one has canceled plans to introduce a property tax: it may even turn out to be 3 times higher

The day before, the relevant State Duma committee proposed not to introduce a real estate tax, but instead to modernize the property tax for individuals. However, according to Vedomosti , the government has other plans for now.

According to the newspaper, the authorities are going to give municipalities the right to increase the property tax rate for individuals. The burden on citizens could increase two to three times compared to the basic version of the property tax bill.

The government planned to introduce a new tax, which will be levied not on the inventory value, but on the cadastral (i.e., close to the market) value of real estate last year. But due to the fact that the discussion of the parameters of the new tax dragged on, its introduction had to be postponed.

The main discussion around the new tax was about reducing the burden on the population. It was assumed that the tax rate for housing and garages would be 0.1%, which is 20 times lower than the existing one. But due to the transition to a new tax base - cadastral value - it turned out that the amount of tax could triple and, according to calculations of the Federal Tax Service, for housing would average 1915 rubles compared to 642 rubles in 2012. To minimize a one-time increase in taxes, it was decided that the tax burden should increase gradually - by 20% per year until 2025.

But the parameters did not suit the regions, in particular the Moscow region, a federal official told Vedomosti. Tax revenues from owners of individual houses will decrease significantly, the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov complained, the newspaper’s interlocutor said. The Moscow authorities were also dissatisfied, the official says: they did not like the too long transition period - five years.

Regional authorities were heard, another federal official told the newspaper: at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, it was decided to increase the base tax rate three times - to 0.3%. The president approved a threshold of 0.3%, a government official confirms.
The transition period will be shortened, and instead of increasing the rate, it will be possible to set a coefficient that increases the base rate three times, notes a regional official familiar with the results of the discussion.