Dr. Samia Hussein, head of the Real Estate Tax Authority, confirmed that tomorrow (October 15th) the deadline for payment of the real estate tax without delay penalty for those who own a housing unit worth more than 2 million pounds or who have more than one housing unit. For a period of three months since July 15 and was extended to 15 August and then to 15 October to facilitate the owners of taxable units to pay the tax without queues or congestion.
The President of the Authority said that a citizen who is entitled to a real estate tax from the application of the law in 2013 until 2018 to apply for tax payments due to him to the Department of Real Estate or Taxation of its own for these years, where he can pay the tax of the current year 2018 with a previous year and example Therefore, if the annual tax for 2018 is 1000 pounds, he will pay 2000 pounds for the current year 2018 with one of the previous years and the taxpayer will continue to pay the real estate tax due in a current year with a previous year until the payment of all previous years.
Dr. Samia Hussein said that if the taxpayer paid the tax benefits until 2017, he has a deadline to pay the tax due for the current year until the end of December 2018 without a fine.
Husain explained that it is also possible to allow the owners of real estate units charged with the payment of tax payments under the calculation of real estate tax due to them until the knowledge of the tax estimate of their unit, by knowing the value roughly by neighboring units similar.
The Ministry of Finance's statement confirmed that some of the concessions also include giving private housing owners a value of less than two million pounds, which allowed them not to go until 30/6/2019 to prevent crowds with taxpayers who are currently demanding the tax and that they can benefit from the period of eight and a half months, During this period, the exemption form for their residential unit can be submitted and obtained directly from the Embassy.
In the same context, the head of the Real Estate Tax Authority confirmed during her tour of a number of real estate tax authorities on the proper functioning of the tax projects, which extended the working hours until 9 pm to facilitate citizens and avoid overcrowding due to the high demand from citizens to pay the tax due them.
It should be noted that the Real Estate Tax Authority has launched a website is https://enquiry.rta.gov.eg/RealState/RealEstateTaxForm.aspx to complete a form of data for the unit to be questioned, in lieu of the go of the financier himself to know the value of the payment and the allocation of a main call center in direct line number (0235317323) attached to 10 sub-lines to answer the questions of the financiers, in addition to providing a short list of answers to the basic questions common to citizens regarding real estate tax on the website of official interest www.rta.gov.eg in addition to accepting the payment of real estate tax payable on real estate units in the northern coast And consciousness Sokhna coastal areas in their own errands or in building public treasury Blazawgly.