The new government team of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell has been marked, from the first day, the objective of establishing "a more equitable municipal fiscal policy" and reduce the tax pressure suffered by neighbors, said the mayor, Miguel Ángel García.
Garcia has indicated that the Town hall de Benitatxell must seek new sources of income and gradually reduce the tax burden on citizens. In this week's plenary session, a lowering of the IBI will be approved.
The mayor has responded to criticism from RED, the party of former mayor Josep Femenia, who considers that the reduction is not significant. "It is cynical that they criticize us for taking measures that lower the fiscal pressure of the neighbors. They refused to lower taxes. The IBI was an easy way of income and did not look for alternatives."said Garcia.
The new local government, according to the first, "It is working in other ways of income. It was a priority to lower the IBI. But we will reduce it more progressively. At the same time, we have created sections in the tax of economic activities (IAE) so that they pay more the companies that invoice more In particular, we have created a section in which we increase this tax to firms that invoice more than one million euros a year. "
García has advanced that despite lowering the IBI, the City will save 26.000 euros in this first year to achieve income through other municipal taxes. The local government is also working on amendments to the garbage and ICIO ordinances (building, facilities and works taxes) and always along the lines of
make them "more equitable".
"We do not put at risk the economic stability of the City Council. On the contrary, with these modifications we increase the financial muscle and we will be able to undertake new investments. The previous local government was going to the easy way, to take advantage of the cadastre revisions and to load the economic support of the City Council in the backs of the neighbors. We are going to correct that situation. The citizens are going to pay less. We are making a fiscal policy of a social and more supportive court ", said the mayor
