who must notify the Federal Tax Service of benefits

Most Muscovites have already received notices about the need to pay property tax: a house, an apartment, a room, a garage, and the like. At the same time, some categories of citizens are either exempted from it, or can receive benefits. Today we will tell you in which cases it is necessary to notify the tax authorities that you belong to the preferential category and what to do if the tax benefit was not taken into account when calculating the tax.

Last year’s property tax must be paid by December 1st. As a rule, benefits in the Federal Tax Service (FTS) are taken into account automatically, but there are cases when it is worth notifying the tax office that you are entitled to exemption from property tax or a reduction in the amount of charges.

The preferential categories of citizens include veterans, pensioners, disabled people of groups I and II, disabled children, those with many children and some other categories.

You can check whether your preferential status is taken into account when calculating property tax using service on the FTS website. To get accurate information about the calculation of taxes in your region, select it by selecting from the list, then click “Find” and on the page that opens, click on “Details” in the required line. Information about the benefit will be indicated in the column “Amount of tax benefits”.

If a benefit or deduction is not included in the notice, submit a claim for the benefit in one of the following ways:

– through Personal Area taxpayer;

– by using online appeals;

– by mail;

– with a personal visit to the tax office or the MFC.

It is worth notifying the tax office in advance if you have recently received a status that gives you the right to a benefit, for example, you have retired, filed a disability, or have a large family.

After the audit, overpaid taxes will be recalculated and a new notification will be generated. The overpayment can be returned or set off for the next year.

In addition, if the beneficiary owns several properties of the same type, you can choose which one will be subject to the exemption. That is, let’s say a pensioner is the owner of two apartments and two garages. He will receive exemption from property tax only for one apartment and one garage. At the same time, by default, the exemption applies to objects for which the highest tax is set. But if for some reason a person wants the benefit to extend to another apartment or garage, it is necessary to submit a corresponding application to the Federal Tax Service.

Alena Bodrienko.

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