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Housing
Authority
Grant
to Assist Owners in the Construction and/or Completion
or Rehabilitation of their First Home.
The
Chairperson of the Housing Authority notifies that the
Authority is receiving applications for a grant to assist
with the construction and/or completion or rehabilitation
of a first dwelling house according to the conditions
of this Scheme.
Who
can apply?
The
scheme is restricted to applicants who on the date of
the application are:-
(a)
Maltese Citizens, or in the case of married couples
only but not separated, one of the couple must be Maltese
Citizen; and
(b)
EU citizens who are acquiring their first residence.
Non Maltese Citizens have to satisfy the criteria
issued by any Authority and/or by the Office of the
Prime Minister.
(c)
have resided in Malta for not less than 18 months in
the last 24 months immediately preceding the application.
Legally
Separated Applicants
Legally
Separated applicants with unmarried children living
with them who acquire a residence after their separation
are entitled for a grant under this scheme.
But
those applicants, who alone or with their spouses, have
already benefited from previous VAT refund schemes administered
by the Department for Social Accommodation and/or the
Housing
Authority cannot qualify under this scheme.
Grant
available under this Scheme
Eligible
applicants may apply for a grant, up to the maximum
amounts as stated below in respect of expenditures made
in connection with the acquisition or construction/
rehabilitation of their first dwelling house:-
(a)
for single persons over 30 and/or persons over 18 years
of age with physical, intellectual disability or who
are suffering or suffered from chronic mental illness
a grant up to a maximum of Lm1,000;
(b)
for engaged or married couples, separated persons, single
parents or widows/ widowers with custody of children
a grant up to a maximum of Lm2,500.
An
additional Lm500 is given for the rehabilitation or
reconstruction of a property built and was ready for
habitation before 1st January, 1960.
Grants
will only be made following the presentation of fiscal
receipts issued in the name of the applicants.
Grants
under this scheme shall only be made in respect of either
one of the following categories and shall be made in
two separate instalments as indicated hereunder:
(i)
Category A - Construction of New Home
Construction
of a first dwelling house which was purchased after
1st September 2001 by which date the construction
or completion of works had not been completed;
First
instalment:
A
grant amounting to 13.04% in the case of works completed
by the 31st December, 2003 and 15.254% in the case of
works completed after 1st January, 2004 on the actual
taxable value of goods and services supplied and paid
for on or after the date of acquisition of the property
relating to construction including excavation, foundations,
masonry and concrete including screed, and fees related
to the construction of the dwelling up to a maximum
of:-
Lm600
for single persons over 30 years of age and/or persons
over 18 years of age with physical, intellectual disability
or who are suffering or suffered from chronic mental
illness;
Lm1,300
for engaged or married couples, single parent, separated
persons or widows/widowers with custody of children.
Second
instalment:
A
grant amounting to 13.04% in the case of works completed
by the 31st December, 2003 and 15.254% in the case of
works completed after 1st January, 2004 of the actual
taxable value of goods and services supplied and paid
for on or after the date of acquisition of the property
relating to finishing works including plastering and
painting, electricity and plumbing, tiles and marble,
internal and external doors, windows and bathrooms up
to a maximum of:-
Lm400
for single persons over 30 years of age and/or persons
over 18 years of age with physical, intellectual disability
or who are suffering or suffered from chronic mental
illness;
Lm1,200
for engaged or married couples, single parents, separated
persons or widows/widowers with custody of children.
(ii)
Category B - Home Improving
Rehabilitation,
reconstruction and extensions of a property for use
as a first dwelling which was purchased after 1st September
2001, which property was built and ready for habitation
on or before 1st January, 1960:
First
instalment:
A
grant amounting to 13.04% in the case of works completed
by the 31st December, 2003 and 15.254% in the case of
works completed after 1st January, 2004 of the actual
taxable value of goods and services supplied and paid
to costs of demolition (where applicable), reconstruction
and extensions including excavation, foundations, masonry
and concrete including screed, and fees related to the
construction of the dwelling up to a maximum of:-
Lm900
for single persons over 30 years of age and/or persons
over 18 years of age with physical, intellectual disability
or who are suffering or suffered from chronic mental
illness;
Lm1,600
for engaged or married couples, single parents, separated
persons or widows/widowers with custody of children.
Second
instalment:
A
grant amounting to 13.04% in the case of works completed
by the 31st December, 2003 and 15.254% in the case of
works completed after 1st January, 2004 of the actual
taxable value of goods and services supplied and paid
for on or after the date of acquisition of the property
relating to finishing works including plastering and
painting, electricity and plumbing, tiles and marble,
internal and external doors, windows and bathrooms up
to a maximum of:-
Lm600
for single persons over 30 years of age and/or persons
over 18 years of age with physical, intellectual disability
or who are suffering or suffered from chronic mental
illness;
Lm1,400
for engaged or married couples, single parents, separated
persons or widows/widowers with custody of children.
Method
of Application
Applications
shall be made to the Authority on the prescribed form
and shall contain all the information, details and certificates
as required by the said form and by these regulations.
Applications
shall be accompanied by original fiscal receipts issued
in the names of the applicants showing the payments
made by them relating to the costs of acquisition, construction
and rehabilitation of the dwelling house as well as
the documents listed in the application form.
(Fiscal
receipts issued by a cash register must be accompanied
by a detailed invoice or Sale/Delivery Note. Receipts
must be dated after the date of the Contract of Acquisition.
There
is no time limit when you can apply before a fiscal
receipts 'expires')
Where
to Apply
Applications
under this Scheme including the required documents
shall be handed at
Malta
- Housing Authority, 22, Pietro Floriani Street, Floriana
Gozo
- 25, Enrico Mizzi Street, Victoria
(during
normal office hours.)
Non-payment
of Grants
No
grant is payable to applicants:-
(i)
who do not qualify under the conditions of the scheme;
(ii)
who acquired or built their first residences three years
or more prior the date of the publication of this Scheme
Payment
of Grants
The
payment of grants under:-
(a)
both categories mentioned in Clause 5 will only be paid
after the Authority is satisfied that the claimed expenditure
refers to costs actually incurred on the qualifying
works and are covered by the relative fiscal receipts;
(b)
both Categories A and B will not be made:-
(i)
before completion of works up to shell form in the case
of first instalments and;
(ii)
before full completion of finishing works in the case
of second instalments.
Conditions
(a)
Successful applicants will be required to satisfy the
Authority that they are to occupy the dwelling house
within two years from the date of their request for
the payment of the second instalment and that they are
to continue to reside permanently in it as their ordinary
residence for an uninterrupted period of five years
from date of occupation provided that the five years’
occupation happen within a period of seven years from
date of the request for payment of the second instalment.
(b)
Payments of grants under this Scheme are not issued
under this scheme or any other scheme replacing it:-
(i)
if the works to which the subsequent application refers
is made by the same applicants, or
(ii)
if in the cases where the premises have been disposed
of by the beneficiaries/applicants, works are carried
out by the new owners before the lapse of five years
from the date of the first application submitted by
the original beneficiaries/applicant under this scheme.
(c)
Following the payment of a first instalment, the claim
for the second instalment of the grant may be made by
any architect’s certificate and fiscal receipts covering
the second stage of construction and/or rehabilitation
as the case may be, and such other documents as the
Authority may from time to time require at its absolute
discretion.
PS:
For more info and complete information please refer
to the original document - The Malta Government Gazette
- No.17,647, which can be found online on http://doi.gov.mt/EN/gazetteonline/2004/09/gazts09/GG%201.9.pdf
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