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The City of Las Torres de Cotillas approved in the city on Monday, October 29, a drop in the Urban Property Tax (IBI) for 2019 that is around 6%.
This decrease will mean that the tax rate for urban farms will go from 0.69% to 0.63% and for rustic ones from 0.65% to 0.60%, a reduction that is made according to the maximum allowed to the Consistory comply with the budgetary laws established ", explains the mayor, Isabel María Zapata.
A measure that counted on the votes in favor of the popular group and against Ciudadanos, PSOE and Cambio Las Torres, while the non-attached councilor did not attend the plenary session.
"In the plenary session, the municipal auditor recalled that the proposed reduction proposed by the opposition groups up to 0.50% is not possible without elaborating a new economic-financial plan, since doing it directly would be committing an illegality," says the ruler
"Any decline that goes beyond the limits we have reached is against the law and, however much we want to benefit our neighbors, we can not do it," says Zapata.
Additional bonuses
Downgrades of the IBI in the municipality that in recent years have led to the tax rate set by the City Council - to which to calculate the tax is added the value established for the property by the General Directorate of Cadastre of the Ministry of Finance- of 0 ' 80% at 0.72% (2012) and then at 0.69% (2016).
"In addition, the residents of Las Torres de Cotillas can currently benefit from an additional 5% bonus in the case of direct debit of their taxes," says the councilor of Finance, Ángel González.
The mayor also recalls that in 2018 Zapata's government team lowered taxes in the municipality (including the stamp of the car, which was reduced by almost 20%), reducing municipal revenue by 500,000 euros.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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