The Ministry of Finance of Bogotá (SDH) reported that, starting next week, the people of Bogota will be able to download their Property Tax Bill by simply typing the owner's ID and the CHIP of the property in a button provided on the Secretariat's web portal www.haciendabogota.gov.co, that is, without the need to enter the Virtual Office.
To print, the application will ask for a key that is the number of the owner's document can be NIT, citizenship card or foreigner's card. With the physical invoice, printed on laser, they can make the payment at the authorized financial institutions or on the bank portals that have an agreement with the Secretariat.
“We appreciate the excellent tax culture that Bogotans have and those citizens who want to pay on time. Therefore, we want to make the procedure easier for you on our website. Remember to have the CHIP of the property and the owner's ID on hand. For their part, the holders of a lease must know the NIT number of their trustee or bank to do the process,” explained the District Secretary of Finance, Juan Mauricio Ramírez.
Likewise, this week, the official announced that taxpayers in strata 1 and 2, those in rural areas and older adults of stratum 3 will begin to receive physical invoices for property tax at home.
“It is estimated that the process will end by the end of the month. In total, we will send 810,000 physical invoices, out of a total of 2.2 million invoices from the Predial,” he added.
In addition, from Monday, April 18, the SDH will begin sending invoices to the mails registered by taxpayers with the Tax Directorate. In total, from January 1 to April 10, the SHD has received more than 497,000 payments and collected more than 640 billion pesos for property tax, which represents 19% of the target.
To date, in the Virtual Office of the Ministry of Finance alone, 21,606 million pesos of Property has been paid and 592,000 taxpayers have already been registered. It is important to remember that the expirations of the Property, with a 10% discount, run from May 9 to 24, according to the last letter of the CHIP, and that, in the case of Vehicles, they range from 3 to 10 June, according to the last digit of the license plate. Finally, it should be noted that, on the same button provided on the website, from April 25, Vehicles taxpayers will also be able to find the respective invoices.
How to register in the Virtual Office?
1. Taxpayers must visit the official website of the District Treasury Secretariat.
2. Go to the Virtual Office section and click on 'Register new virtual office' and then 'Register here'.
3. Select the type of document with which you are going to register and fill in the data requested.
4. Click on the 'OK' option.
5. Answer the validation questions that the system throws up and click 'Submit'. It should be remembered that if the answers are not correct, the system will not allow you to move forward in the process.
6. Create your username and password. If you have previously registered an email on the page, this will appear, but you can modify it if you want.
7. You will receive an email confirming your registration to activate your account.
One of the novelties of this Virtual Office is that the taxpayer's user will no longer be their ID number, but an email, which with a secure password will henceforth allow the procedures to be carried out.
How to download and pay the Property Tax?
After making the respective registration, citizens can go to the page of the Bogotá Treasury Secretariat, to download and pay the respective invoice. Here are the steps to follow:
1. Find the Virtual Office part and select the 'Unified Property Tax' button.
2. Login with the email and password that were previously created.
3. Click on the 'Taxpayer' button to make all transactions and payments.
4. Select the 'Billing' tab.
5. In the drop-down tabs choose the 'Property tax' options, select the year 2022 and click 'Search'.
6. A box will appear where you will find the option to download the invoice and also to make the respective payment.