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Some owners of the capital’s hotels located on city-owned lands may not receive the promised government holidays on payments for the rental of these sites. This is the last meeting oberstab on the economy at city hall said representatives of the business Ombudsman in Moscow. Officials say such cases are “exceptional”: in the rent holiday is denied to those who in parallel have applied for other crisis benefits.On the meeting of August 11, oberstab on the economy at city hall, where representatives of the business Ombudsman in Moscow reported failures of the Department of city property (DMI) to provide hoteliers promised in the crisis of the deferred payments for the lease of land belonging to the city, “b” told a few market participants. In a press-service of the business Ombudsman in Moscow Tatyana Mineeva explained that the DMI in some cases refuse to rent holiday, citing the fact that some of the areas in the hotels located on the lands of the city, is occupied by the enterprises of trade, public catering and offices of banks. Meanwhile, they say there is, in decision No. 212-PP not recorded restrictions on working in the hotels of the objects associated infrastructure. This document, adopted by the municipality on 24 March 2020, allows the hotels to qualify for a deferral of lease payments for the land during April, may, June until the end of this year. In 2019, the budget of Moscow has received more than 15 billion rubles from renting urban land.Public Ombudsman for Moscow in the field of asset management Dmitry Shlapak said that the office of the business Ombudsman was contacted by the owner of the hotel “national” (belongs to the family of the businessman Mikhail Gutseriev), who faced with this problem. “It’s the same for other hotels of this business structure (about ten objects.— “Kommersant”)”,— adds Mr. Shlopak. He said that many hotels are entitled to vacation rentals on the ground, has not received from DGI direct failures and positive solutions no.Corporation A. N. D. (belongs to the Gutseriev family and owns a number of hotel assets in Moscow, including the “National”) told “Kommersant” that the refusal of the DGI have not received. It added that “the process of using hotels of the support measures were not formalized until the end”. Partner Hospitality Ivashkevich, Stanislav Ivashkevich confirms that hotels barely get the promised government preferences to the crisis: “depending on the classification of hotels number of number of funds should be from 50-70% of the total area of the object, the rest of the related infrastructure”.In the DRI said “Kommersant” that 143 of the hotelier, leased from the city of 16 plots with a total area of 8.29 hectares and 127 non-residential buildings (35,6 m), have already received assistance for 134 million rubles. call describes the business Ombudsman the situation, “excludeheating”. “But this problem is already solved,— said in the DRI.— We have developed a procedure for interaction of departments (municipality.— “B”), allowing to prevent such situations.” From the review of the Department shows that a number of hoteliers could be denied a rent holiday if they have already applied for grants to offset the costs incurred during the regime of isolation (this is another measure of support in a crisis from the city hall). “Such a businessman could appear unjustified competitive advantage: he could make and rent holidays, and payment in cash of the cost of the rent of land. To prevent this, include a protection mechanism (from the dual of preferences.— “Kommersant”)”,— explained in the DRI. Corporation A. N. D. reported that engaged in dialogue with city only for the cost of land rent and tax on real property.During the regime of isolation of the hotel business was seriously damaged. According to PwC estimations, the average load of hotels in Moscow in March—April, amounted to 7-10%. Corporation A. N. D. they say that at the peak of coronavirus restrictions download of their hotels did not exceed 2-3%. Now the figure rose to 20%, while in the summer of 2019 was 85-90%. Vice-President of the Federation of restaurateurs and hoteliers Vadim Prasov said that the revenues of the hotels during the period of isolation fell by 90%. In the first quarter of 2020, the total revenue of hotels in Moscow reached 67.3 billion roubles, from April to December is expected to decline by almost 74% compared to the same period of 2019.Khalil Amine, Alexandra Mertsalova