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The Governing Board has given the green light to the tax ordinance next year, in which the freezing of all taxes and the introduction of a new bonus of 50% for solar orchard to maintain agricultural use is expected.
co-payments for social services are deleted, the beneficiaries of the zero quota expand into the garbage fee and 10% reduced the price of the preschools.
Martínez-Oliva: "We propose a tax table for 2017 characterized by a deep social commitment that all reductions are aimed at supporting families with less income and so singular older".
Total elimination of copayments in social services, reducing the price of nursery schools and expanding the level of income so that more people can host the zero rate fee garbage are the main lines that define the tax ordinance next year, today approved the draft of the Governing Board and submitted to the next plenary.
This is a proposal characterized by "a deep social commitment that all reductions are aimed at supporting families with less income and so unique to the elderly, because we believe it is social justice that receive preferential treatment."
Another important novelty is the introduction of a quota reduction of property tax for owners of urban plots to keep their crops.
It is a measure included in the Plan of Action of the Huerta, which aims to encourage the maintenance of agricultural activity and the recovery of crops in abandoned plots.
The main tax cuts for the lowest incomes are that:
- The elimination of copayments social services, which would affect users of home help, respite care and telecare.
- The reduction of 10.5% in prices of nursery schools.
- Expanding income level to access the zero rate fee trash, promoting an increase in the number of beneficiaries, 1,586 people joining the current 3,909.
To this tax reduction resulting from these three routes, adds aimed at supporting the recovery and protection of Huerta and avoid the abandonment of land.
In this case, the bonus of solar owners to commit to maintaining agricultural activity in them for at least three years, will benefit from a reduction of 50% of IBI.
The total amount will amount to 300,000 euros and the specific reduction for each plot depend on the answer they give the owners of the plots.
Tax freeze
Along with the above aspects, the modification of ordinances for 2017 also provides for the abolition of the fee for the processing of administrative records change in ownership in the municipal licensing activities and the delivery of health services.
Moreover, the proposal moved by Councilman Finance and Employment, Eduardo Martinez-Oliva, to the Governing Board, provides, in general, the freezing of all taxes, fees and charges, so that taxpayers next year will pay the same amount as in 2016.
In the case of IBI, the reduction of 6% of the last two years would be strengthened with the maintenance of the tax rate in 2017.
"In recent years, we have applied the largest drop in the tax burden on property tax, which is the most burdensome for household savings tax, as well as in promoting job creation and economic activity, especially with suppression in 2016 of open rate.
Now we believe it is time for the most disadvantaged groups enjoy more benefits, "said Martinez-Oliva.
Therefore, older people are the biggest beneficiaries of the proposed changes to the tax ordinance, since they are the users of the services of home help, respite care or tele-assistance, and the most numerous group of the zero quota rate trash.
Taxpayer assistance and access to information
In addition, the amendments made fit perfectly with the marked fiscal targets for next year exercise in story to:
- Tax Justice, achieved by reducing the tax burden for families and businesses: bonus IBI for land included in the Plan of Action of the Huerta, expansion of beneficiaries of the zero rate fee garbage removal rate by the processing of applications for change of ownership in the license suppression activities or provision of health services.
- Administrative simplification and assistance to taxpayers in meeting their tax obligations: expediting procedures in the statements of Capital Gains and easy to apply the exemption for disability tax vehicles, among others.
- Transparency and access to information: the electronic reporting is regulated and use with notaries is regulated, allowing the citizen "zero negotiations" with the AMT in tax efforts of his writing.
- Combating tax fraud: The changes made it possible to reduce fraud, not by way of inspection, but by improved management procedures.
Moreover, the Governing Board has also given its approval to the modification of the tax regulation Tax on the Increase in Value of Urban Land (goodwill) in the sense of empowering the Municipal Tax Agency to process ex officio, without the express request of the taxpayer, the exemption for payment in kind.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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