The Independent Authority for Public Revenue is activating the procedure for a major money refund to the accounts of thousands of property owners who paid undue amounts of property tax. This unprecedented opportunity mainly concerns those who paid tax for properties they used for personal residence without having properly declared their use in the original declarations.
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Which property owners are entitled to money refunds
The special legislative regulation that came into force allows the submission of corrective declarations for the tax years 2014 to 2019, even though these specific years had technically been statute-barred. After processing the modified data, beneficiaries will see full refunds of amounts they paid without legal obligation.
Categories benefiting from the refund include:
• Property owners who submitted incorrect or incomplete E9 forms for personal residence properties
• Corrections for commercial spaces and other properties for the 2014-2019 tax years
• Cases of undue payments from erroneous declarations
How the property tax refund process works
The completion of the process is carried out automatically by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue services based on the modified E9 forms that have been submitted by June 30, 2025. In practice, property owners who had paid tax unjustly will see the money credited directly to their bank accounts, while corresponding debts will be permanently written off from certified amounts.
Unique opportunity for retroactive correction
Under normal circumstances, declarations that reduce tax burden can only be submitted within the prescribed statute of limitations period. For the years 2014 to 2019, this deadline had already expired.
However, the special legislative intervention that was activated provides the possibility of retroactive correction until mid-2025. This ensures not only the write-off of undue taxes but also the actual return of amounts to beneficiaries.
With the completion of this process, property owners who submitted corrective E9 forms will have full restoration for the years they had declared incorrectly. This closes a long-standing chapter of uncertainty and unfair charges that burden taxpayers.
This is an extremely important facilitation affecting thousands of property owners, allowing them to recover money that was paid without any actual tax obligation.
