Of the 2,300,000 empty residential units that have been identified so far, 900,000 units are related to legal entities that should have been taxed, but the realization of this issue has been pending for months. communication should be established, but according to the Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development, this communication has not been established yet.
According to Isna, acquiring residential and commercial properties by legal entities and keeping them vacant has become a problem for the housing market. As the Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development says, out of 2 million and 300 thousand uninhabited residential units, 900 thousand units belong to legal entities. It means legal entities, banks, government agencies, public bodies and institutions that usually purchase or build residential and commercial properties to increase capital or protect it from inflation.
Since 2014, the government has been thinking of finding a solution to supply vacant units to the housing market, which passed the Direct Taxes Law in that year, and according to the repeated Article 169 of this law, vacant units must be taxed, but this law was suspended until December 2016. The Islamic Council promulgated the tax law on empty houses. Before that, the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development had created a system for entering residential information.
