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for land and buildings, and certain infrastructure. It is an annual tax but can be paid in four installments in March, May, August, and November. The local municipalities are free to set tax rates on real estate in their area from 0.2% to 3% of its cadastral value, otherwise tax rates defined by state apply. A tax rate exceeding 1.5% of cadastral value may be charged only if the real estate is improperly maintained. An increased real estate tax rate of 3% may be applied if the maximum allowed duration of construction works is exceeded, i.e. 5 years or 8 years of construction works period, depending on the type of construction. C. Maintenance Costs An apartment owner is obliged, according to the existing joint property share included in his or her residential property and a respective decision of the community of apartment owners, cover the expenditures for the performance of the mandatory administration activities of the residential house, remuneration to the administrator, expenditures for the performance of other administration activities of the residential house which ensure improvement and development of the residential house, as well as monetary payments into the communities of apartment owners savings fund. D. Payments for Legal Rights of Use If the real estate is a divided estate (please see Section C. Divided estate , in paragraph IV), owner of the building (structure) is obliged to make compulsory payments for use of the part of the land plot functionally related to the building to the landowner. The amount of such fee is agreed between
the parties, but if no agreement is reached, it is 4% of the cadastral value of the land per year, but not less than 50 EUR per year. On 1 July 2024 a yearly fee for preparing and sending the payment notification in amount of 15 EUR per building (structure) owner and 30 EUR fee for late payment notification was introduced. The same law also limited the annual increase of fee for right of use to 30% compared to previous’ year fee. The limitation is in force till 2028. An agreement between the owner of the building (structure) and the land for a different fee for use of land plot or payment notification is not binding to the next owner of the divided estate.
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