Parents of children with disabilities in Kazan are exempt from paying property tax on physical persons

(KZN.RU, December 13, Alsu Safina). Parents (adoptive parents, guardians, trustees) of children with disabilities in Kazan are exempt from paying property tax on individuals from January 1, 2017. The decision was made today at the XXII session by deputies of the Kazan City Duma.

Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, supported the proposal of the Kazan Executive Committee on granting a privilege on property tax to families with disabled children at the Business Monday.

At the session, the Mayor noted that during the joint work with charitable funds, it was possible to see the points of tension requiring the attention of the authorities. First of all, they concern a family raising children with disabilities. “We can give them real help”, said the Mayor of Kazan.

Irek Mukhametshin, the head of the Finance Department of the Kazan Executive Committee, reminded that the tax on property of individuals is a local tax that is fully credited to the budget of the Kazan municipal formation. The tax on the territory of the city is established by the Tax Code of the Russian Federation and by the decision of the Kazan City Duma “On the Personal Property Tax”.

I. Mukhametshin noted that the tax privileges on the property of individuals are socially oriented and are provided to socially vulnerable groups of the population. He said that more than 4 thousand disabled children live in Kazan now. The families, in which they are brought up, belong to the category of the population in need of assistance from the state, marked the head of the Financial Department.

“For the numerous appeals of parents of disabled children to support them at the city level and taking into account the high social importance of this issue, I propose to release this category of taxpayers from payment of property tax for individuals without limitation of the validity period from January 1, 2017”, offered the head of the Financial Department.

The tax relief will be granted for the following objects of taxation: apartment or apartment building, garage or car place. “The tax privilege is granted for one object of each type at the payer's choice”, I. Mukhametshin explained the conditions for granting the benefit. “The tax benefit is granted to taxpayers permanently residing in the city territory for the object of taxation in the property of a taxpayer and not used in entrepreneurial activity”.

Parents (adoptive parents, guardians, trustees) of children with disabilities will be able to use the privilege in 2018 with payment of tax for 2017.

“According to preliminary calculations, the amount from budget revenues for 2018 is insignificant, 12 million rubles”, said I. Mukhametshin and added that the parents of disabled children are exempt from this type of taxes in such cities as Volgograd, Ufa, and Krasnoyarsk.

The decision of the Kazan City Duma to grant a benefit to the parents of disabled children will be published on the official portal of the local self-government bodies of Kazan. It will be possible to get more information in the Financial Department of the Kazan Executive Committee or in the tax authority at the place of residence.