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600 British property owners in Pamporovo summoned to pay two-year backlog of taxes
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About 600 British property owners have not paid their estate taxes in the Bulgarian resort town of Pamporovo for the past two years, Bulgarian news agency BTA said on July 1 2010.
According to Chepelare deputy mayor Georgi Pepelanov, the municipality has sent nearly 600 letters to debtors, addressed to the UK, in which the owners concerned are "kindly requested" to pay their taxes.
The municipality's mailings cost 600 leva, as each letter costs about one lev, the report said.
Perhaps to defuse tension, Pepelanov said that the municipality is certain that this was not a deliberate evasion but merely a misunderstanding between the British owners and the companies managing their properties in Bulgaria.
However, the municipality is also owed a large sum from local hotels in the resort of Pamporovo.
According to the BTA, the sum owed by the British and the hotels amounts to 600 000 leva in total.
"Russians and Spanish nationals also have property here but they have paid taxes on time," Pepelanov said.
So far, the municipality has only received about a third of the money owed to it by hotels in Pamporovo.
According to Chepelare deputy mayor Georgi Pepelanov, the municipality has sent nearly 600 letters to debtors, addressed to the UK, in which the owners concerned are "kindly requested" to pay their taxes.
The municipality's mailings cost 600 leva, as each letter costs about one lev, the report said.
Perhaps to defuse tension, Pepelanov said that the municipality is certain that this was not a deliberate evasion but merely a misunderstanding between the British owners and the companies managing their properties in Bulgaria.
However, the municipality is also owed a large sum from local hotels in the resort of Pamporovo.
According to the BTA, the sum owed by the British and the hotels amounts to 600 000 leva in total.
"Russians and Spanish nationals also have property here but they have paid taxes on time," Pepelanov said.
So far, the municipality has only received about a third of the money owed to it by hotels in Pamporovo.
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I paid my taxes every year in Pamporovo to the Bulgarian managemant company who have now run off with all our money and stolen many expensive items from the complex and caused many thousands of Euro damage to the complex as well. Yet many people are only too ready to blame the Brits for not paying.
A dog is made like it is by its owner, knowing the people in BG that can't be good.
No, the Rottweiller does not lie to you as he bites your arm off!!!!
Dianne: could that have anything to do with most "Bulgarian" property management companies actually being owned and run by Brits??? ;)
At least the worst of the lot are!
"Russians and Spanish nationals also have property here but they have paid taxes on time,"
Looks like another case of British property hunters setting up their own rules. They try to do this all over the world... ex: carribean..
Stop complaining and finding any kind of reason, not to pay. Excuse after excuse. Next thing we hear is that the letters had spelling mistakes, so payments could not be issued, but the British as a result.
Maybe you should look in the mirror and try see if it is easy [...]
Read the full comment to get along with you, instead of constantly bitching the locals.
You guys like to use up, don't you..?
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What is the difference between a Bulgarian Property Management company and a Rottweiller ?
I have more trust and feel safer with a rottweiller.
Unfortunately due to the unscrupulous behaviour of Bulgarian Property developers/management companies UK owners with fully paid-up property have never received BULSTAT cards from the local municipality who refuse to issue them due to monies owed by the property managers. Owners of individual properties like us are therefore in a 'catch 22' situation and have also never received letters seeking tax but we know we must owe something !
"a misunderstanding between the British owners and the companies managing their properties in Bulgaria"
Sounds like another case of people paying money to management companies and those companies "misunderstanding" what the money was intended for.
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