Moscow finally decided on taxes
The capital city Duma adopted in the 2nd and final reading the draft law "on tax on property of physical persons". According to the amendments, the tax calculation will be derived from the cadastral value of the property, not privatization, as it was previously.

The capital city Duma adopted in the 2nd and final reading the draft law "on tax on property of physical persons". According to the amendments, the tax calculation will be derived from the cadastral value of the property, not privatization, as it was previously.
"When we installed the base rate of 0.1% - which applies, in fact, 80% of the apartments in the city, when we were planning this rate, we took as a basis the really existing in the metropolis level of tax over new housing, new apartments, took the taxes that residents of the capital already paid, attributed them to the cadastral value and ultimately received this level, in fact, available in the metropolis", - quoted by RIA the head of the Moscow Department of financial policy and development Maxim Reshetnikov.
In Moscow, 1 member of the Commission on urban planning, public facilities and land management has proposed to amend the law to reduce tax deductions Metropolitan residents twice. The proposed configuration would relate primarily to property price up to 20 million rubles, and the main tax overload will be borne by the owners of expensive and very expensive real estate. According to the proposed changes, with the owners of housing price less than 15 million rubles is expected to collect the tax at the rate of 0.05%, less than 20 million rubles - 0,1%. But taken in the 2nd reading of the Moscow city Duma the draft law "on tax on property of physical persons" left proposed comments without attention.
The state Duma at the beginning of September passed a law according to which the tax on property of individuals will be calculated under the new rules, based on the cadastral value of the property. The law will take effect from 1 January 2015, but included a five-year transition period, during which you will be able to use the inventory valuation price of the property.
To pay have, as before, for a dwelling house, flat, garage, cottage, other houses, which are considered private property. According to the amendments in the capital legislation enacted by Parliament in the first reading, the tax rate on real estate (homes, apartments) cadastral price up to 10 million (77% of apartments in Moscow) is 0.1% of this cost, the price of over 10 million to 20 million rubles to 0.15% (20%), 20-50 million rubles 0.2 per cent (2%), 50-300 million rubles to 0.3% (less than 1% of the apartments). Despite the fact that the tax comes into force in 2015, to pay for the new scheme will begin only in the second half of 2016.