Six thousand Land Owners demanded to pay already abolished taxes for another time

Six thousand land owners in Dedoplistskaro region are again being pressured to pay previously abolished taxes anew. This is the information that farmers informed the Kakheti Information Center, and it is now clear that Dedoplistskaro region was previously designated as a region suffering from bad weather conditions. Under the circumstances and suffering, the government of that time, decided to release the peasants from the requirement to pay real estate taxes on their land holdings. 

According to the peasants, the change was made in the July 11, 2007 Tax Code of Georgia, according to which the persons paying the land property taxes and the local government were released from their obligations on arrears and the relevant fines till January 1, 2005.

According to the lawyers’ explanations, the land owners were released from the unpaid taxes till January 1, 2005, but on November 21, 2008, the council of Finance Ministry issues a decree, according to which the regional tax inspections now were able demand taxes on the land and collected both taxes and fines imposed after the year of 2000.

According to the statements of the land owners, they won’t be able to pay these taxes, but the fines are increasing every day. A total of 6000 people are in now in a dire situation, and thus far this is only in Dedoplistskaro region.

No comment is forthcoming on the decree from the Ministry of Finance.

The peasants were warned that in case of non-payment of these taxes, their land will be confiscated sequestrated and sold off.