The government distance itself from higher taxes for apartments and houses
25. May 2025 at 14:33
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There is also more talk about the cuts of the number of municipalities.
The state will compensate for the costs of 800-euro rewards. Source: TASR
BRATISLAVA. Even after months of negotiations, it is still not clear what high real estate taxes will pay.
Representatives of local governments worked on the new legislation together with the Ministry of Finance and felt that negotiations were coming to the conclusion.
« Just fine -tune the details, » Mayor of Trenčín told SME in mid -April Richard Rybníčekthat is also President Union of Towns of Slovakia.
According to representatives of municipalities, the amendment was supposed to get to Parliament already for May, no later than the June meeting.
After Sunday’s meeting with the Prime Minister Robert Fico of Direction But everything is different. And how exactly the real estate taxes change is more unclear.
Fico did not show up again, the presses were short
Higher real estate tax is intended to solve the financial problems of municipalities so that the state no longer has to subsidize it. « It should help them so that they do not ask the state extra money, » the Finance Minister said some time ago Ladislav Kamenický from the direction of direction.
Municipalities also wanted to unify and set up legal frameworks by the amendment, because at present it happens that in some municipalities there are only a few cents per square meter.
However, this will not happen. The government wants to transfer the responsibility of tax raising only to self -government. What apparently means in practice that every municipality or city could set the amount of all taxes according to themselves.
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