Is it legal to default on property fees?

Legal analysis: the property management company has no right to collect late fees, but it can ask you to pay liquidated damages according to the contract. Late payment fee refers to a certain proportion of late payment fee for failing to pay taxes according to the tax payment period or repaying loans according to the repayment period. It is a measure for tax authorities or creditors to give economic sanctions to overdue parties. The late payment fee has the characteristics of statutory, compulsory and punitive. The so-called statutory, that is, the late payment fee is money explicitly stipulated by national laws and regulations, and individuals and other enterprises and organizations have no right to set it up privately; Compulsory means that the collection of late fees is guaranteed by the state compulsory force.

Legal basis: Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 577 Where a party fails to perform its contractual obligations or fails to perform its contractual obligations in conformity with the contract, it shall be liable for breach of contract such as continuing to perform, taking remedial measures or compensating for losses.

Article 578 Where a party expressly expresses or shows by his own behavior that he will not perform his contractual obligations, the other party may require him to bear the liability for breach of contract before the time limit for performance expires.

Article 579 If one party fails to pay the price, remuneration, rent or interest, or fails to perform other monetary obligations, the other party may demand payment.

Article 584 Where a party fails to perform its contractual obligations or fails to perform its contractual obligations in conformity with the contract, thus causing losses to the other party, the amount of damages shall be equivalent to the losses caused by the breach of the contract, including the benefits that can be obtained after the performance of the contract; However, it shall not exceed the losses that the breaching party foresaw or should have foreseen when concluding the contract.