The notices for paying the property or real estate tax for this year started to be issued in the municipality of Chisinau. Those who pay the tax by June 28 benefit from a 15% reduction. The tax can be paid through post offices, banks, the governmental electronic payment service www.mpay.gov.md or through the digital/mobile signature on www.servicii.fisc.md, IPN reports, quoting the Chisinau City Hall.

Owing to the large number of applicants, the staff of the Tax Collection Division that has eight employees of the necessary 24 does not manage to answer all the phone calls. The email messages will be examined as soon as possible. In the period, the working program of the Division will be extended by an hour, from 5pm to 6pm, so as to serve more customers.

The pensioners, persons with severe and accentuated disabilities, participants in military operations for defending the country’s integrity and independence, in the Afghanistan war and the Chernobyl cleanup  are exempted from paying the real estate tax. In the municipality of Chisinau, the value of the property exempted from taxes cannot exceed 380,000 lei.

The real estate tax can be paid fully or in equal parts not later than August 15 and October 15 respectively. A penalty of 0.0329 % is imposed for each day of delay.