The Socialist Parliamentary Group presented this Thursday a proposition of law to “boost housing rental at affordable prices.” The text contains the fiscal package that the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced in January and in which the Ministry of Housing has been working since then. It must have the endorsement of the Congress and includes the VAT of 21% to the tourist homes, the change of the socimis regime, the tax at the purchase of real estate by the non -resident extra -community and bonuses to the landlords who put rents adjusted to the reference index or below it. And a novelty: an increase in empty housing taxes.
The Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, has affirmed that these fiscal measures are “aimed at preserving the social function of housing against any other purpose” and are part “of the president’s commitments at the beginning of the year.” To fiscally penalize empty floors, from which vacation homes are excluded, the PSOE proposes an IRPF update, to move from a taxation that ranges between 1.1 and 2% to 3%.
Rodríguez has indicated that the objective of this tax rise to empty homes seeks to “promote them to also become part of the residential rental.” “And we delve into the mobilization of the housing park at an affordable price compensating for those owners who put the cheapest prices, below the reference price of the ministry, reaching up to 100% of the IRPF bonus.” The Ministry thus aims to give a tax prize for those who offer at an affordable price and punish those who retain houses in full residential crisis.
From the Socialist Parliamentary Group they hope that the fiscal package announced by Sánchez in January will begin its parliamentary procedure the first half of June and the housing objective and the Treasury is that it is already underway for the next fiscal year. Rodríguez has recognized “the parliamentary minority” that sustains the government, but has committed to “work” the necessary support for the measures to move forward. “It is very difficult to say no,” sources of housing point out.
Among the measures contemplated by the text is the VAT of 25% for tourist accommodations, “with a discouragement”, with which housing wants to “put a pregnancy to tourist floors.” In this sense, Rodríguez has considered that in some areas we will have to “prohibit” these uses. “In housing politics there are no simplistic messages and not all situations are the same,” he said, but “Madrid is in a situation of SOS” with “15,000 illegal homes, 15,000 families expelled from those homes.”
Another of the measures announced by Sánchez and that takes shape is now the reform of the tax regime of the investment companies in the real estate market, known as Socimis, a type of company that enjoys great fiscal benefits. Those who dedicate themselves to the residential market will go to a taxation of 25% if they do not dedicate a part of their residential park to affordable rent.
In addition, the proposition of the law articulates a part of the operation of the new public housing company, with changes in the necessary regulation for the transmission of soils to Sepes, the state land entity, a limitation to the sale price in the homes that are owned by this and that will be activated in the case of protected homes when this protection period ends. With these changes, the Ministry wants to guarantee “the permanent protection of housing on the ground of the State.”
Source: www.eldiario.es
