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[size=55:2dfdd57c]novinite 01 July 2010

600 Brits Owe 2-Year Taxes to Bulgarian Municipality

Around 600 UK owners have not paid their taxes for their apartments in the Bulgarian resort Pamporovo for the past two years, the municipality of the Bulgarian town of Chepelare has announced.

The Deputy Mayor of Chepelare, Georgi Pepelanov, said that the municipality has sent the 600 UK debtors letters in English to their home addresses in the UK to kindly ask them to voluntarily pay their taxes. The letters cost about BGN 1 000.

Pepelanov added that the municipality believes that the late payments are a result of a misunderstanding between the companies managing the apartments and the owners.

“Russians and Spanish also have apartments here but they pay their taxes regularly,” Pepelanov said, adding that the uncollected taxes amount to BGN 600 000 and there are some big hotels from Pamporovo among the debtors.

Pepelanov also said that the municipality has received from the hotels only about one third of the amounts declared for the resort fee.

I agree with you Bryan as you say there are many who have all bought the same property so who pays the tax? well no one until they know who actually owns it as was the case with you I suspect but as some one on here wrote before Welcome to Bulgaria