Find and pay your Greek property tax for 2023 now

The Greek government has started uploading the 2023 ENFIA property tax for all property owners to the Greek tax authority's website. You will not be sent a letter or email notification telling you how much you need to pay.

Every owner of any type of property, including lots, plots, land, houses, apartments, parking spaces, the right to build on the top floor or attics, should go to their online tax page and find out how much they need to pay for 2023. To do this, the property owner must know their username and password in order to search the tax page for information on the tax amount.

It is very common for property owners living outside of Greece to wait for their representative or tax representative in Greece to notify them of their annual property tax. Usually their representative is a lawyer, accountant, relative or friend who lives in Greece and is familiar with the Greek Tax Service webpage and, most importantly, knows the foreign resident's username and password.

A foreign resident who owns real estate in Greece should contact their tax representative in Greece now, early May 2023, to find out how much property tax they owe. They then need to organize how they can practically pay the tax.

The tax is paid either in one payment by the end of May 2023 (May 31) or in ten monthly installments starting on May 31, 2023 and ending at the end of February 2024. If you pay in one installment, you won't get a tax deduction. If the first payment is not paid by the end of May 2023, the increase will usually be very small. However, if several months go by without paying the payment, the accumulated unpaid tax will increase, especially if it is not paid for one or more years.

If you do not pay the annual property tax, which in Greece is called ENFIA, you will not be able to sell or even rent out your property, and in most cases you will not even be able to sue in court in case of infringement of your property rights by squatters or others who may claim your property.

Inheritances cannot be settled, and the assets of an inheritance cannot pass to heirs until the estate (and income) taxes of the deceased have been paid.

Heirs should not be intimidated by taxes in Greece, however. First, the annual property tax is very low compared to most other countries that have this type of tax. Second, inheritance taxes are also low. For a deceased person who died after 2010, each direct heir pays no inheritance tax for a share up to €150,000. For example, if the deceased (Greek citizen) died without a will and is inherited by three children without a spouse, each child inherits 1/3 of the inheritance by law and is entitled to a share of the inheritance up to 150,000 euros exempt from inheritance tax.

Finally, every real estate user in Greece, who has not settled an inheritance or has not obtained ownership by an official document, must at least declare the property as his/her own in his/her E9 tax return and pay the annual ENFIA tax. This will help him/her to obtain title after ten or twenty years of owning the property with the intention of becoming the owner. Recording this on an E9 tax return and paying the annual ENFIA tax is good evidence of intent to own.