Find and pay your 2023 property tax in Greece now

According to news reports, the Greek government has started uploading the 2023 ENFIA property tax (annual property tax) for all property owners to the Greek tax office website.

You will not be sent a letter or email notification with the amount you have to pay. Every owner of any type of property, including lots, land, houses, apartments, parking spaces, top floor building rights or attics, should go to their tax internet page and find out how much they owe for 2023. To do this, the property owner must know their username and password, so they search the tax internet page for the tax amount.

Often property owners living outside Greece wait for their representative or tax representative in Greece to notify them of their annual property tax. Their representative is usually a lawyer, an accountant, a relative or a friend who lives in Greece and is familiar with the Greek tax office's website 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 their 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. You don't get any tax deduction if you pay in one installment. If the first payment is not paid by the end of May 2023, the increase is usually very small. However, if many months go by without a payment being made, the accumulated unpaid tax becomes larger, especially if it is not paid for one or more years.

Thank you for reading the Greek News of America. If you do not pay your annual property tax, which in Greece is called ENFIA, you cannot sell or even rent your property, and in most cases you cannot even initiate legal action if your property is violated by trespassers or others who may claim your property.

Heirs should not be intimidated at all by taxes in Greece. First, the annual property tax is very low compared to most other states that have some type of annual property 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 and no spouse, each child inherits 1/3 of the inheritance by intestacy and is entitled to a share in the inheritance up to 150,000 euros of inheritance tax.

Finally, every real estate user in Greece who has not authorized an inheritance or obtained ownership by a formal document must at least declare the property as their property on their E9 tax form and pay the annual ENFIA. This will help him get the title after ten or twenty years of owning the property with the intention of possession. Submitting tax form E9 and paying the annual ENFIA is good evidence of intent to own.