ANKARA, Jan 24 (A.A) - Finance Minister Sumer Oral said on Thursday that his ministry was not planning to change the property tax rates.
Oral noted that the principle of statement would be lifted in the new arrangement related to the property tax and stated that the municipalities would accrue the tax upon the minimal values and transmit to the taxpayers.
Oral told A.A correspondent that the principle of statement was given 4 yearly in property tax and within this framework 2002 was the new period for the principle of statement.
Pointing out that the latest principle of statements had been given in 1998, Oral noted that they met the problems in the property tax like the problems for today when they came to the government in 1999.
Oral said that some of the principle of statements were shown high and some of them were shown low and that situation created a big disquite, and noting that they put their hands to that problem related to 18 million taxpayers.
Stressing that the works to remove the injustices were continuing and Oral said that the draft which was being prepared on that issue would be debated in the meeting of Council of the Ministers on Monday.
Oral said that the decision on the new arrangement would be taken in the Council of the Ministers.
Sumer Oral noted, ''the principle of statement will be lifted with the new legal arrangement which is being prepared. We have been dealing with the draft lifting the principle of statement in property tax for one and a half month. Now, we will make the additions, which will eliminate the injustices in unit price, to this draft. So, both the injustices and the principle of statement will be lifted.''
Oral said that they were trying to find the most appropriate formule to eliminate the injustices and noted that the works on that issue were continuing and all kinds of alternatives were being evaluated.
Finance Minister Oral stated that the problem was not related with the tax rates and added, ''we are not planning to change property tax rates. The problem is not the rates but the implementations which are far from the injustice.''