Citizens are invited to settle the debt based on the real estate tax

The Administration of Local Public Revenues of the Municipality of Rožaje invites citizens to start paying real estate taxes. The appeal applies especially to natural persons.

By paying the obligations, citizens will avoid forced collection procedures from their personal income, and those who are not employed, the registration of mortgages for buildings that are liable for taxes.

We emphasize that Rožaje is a municipality whose tax rates, according to which taxes are calculated, are among the lowest in Montenegro. In addition, Rožaje is the only municipality in the country that does not calculate interest for outstanding property tax debt.

By properly collecting taxes, I will be much more ready as a community to respond to public needs more quickly and easily.

Relief

▪︎ The Local Revenue Administration offers citizens the opportunity to pay real estate taxes in installments, as well as write off part of claims that have expired, in accordance with the Law on Tax Administration.

▪︎From the beginning of 2021, the local self-government of Rožaj uses new software that enables more accurate records of real estate data, which enables more efficient tax collection.The presence of our fellow citizens from the diaspora is an opportunity to resolve property-legal relations and to settle property tax obligations.

Poor tax collection is a long-standing problem Director of the Local Public Revenue Administration Elvis Zekić says that the Municipality of Rožaje has been facing problems caused by non-payment of obligations by citizens when it comes to real estate tax collection. According to him, several factors contributed to this phenomenon:

- One of them is the bad record of ownership of real estate in Rožaje due to the fact that property and legal relations are not fully defined, especially in the area of sales and inheritance.

- On the other hand, there are a large number of buildings that are not registered in the real estate cadastre because they were built illegally.

Bad collection of taxes can damage the quality of services provided by the Municipality Collection of tax debts based on immovable property is an important activity in the direction of ensuring the stability of public finances that enable collective and individual services to citizens.

Citizens who do not pay their obligations defined by law simultaneously violate the rights of people who regularly pay their claims from the competent municipal authorities.

We once again invite citizens who have a debt based on real estate to settle it, with the possibility of using benefits.