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The Municipal Socialist Group will defend in a motion in the plenary tomorrow that the City of Murcia will adhere to the request of the Federation of Municipalities and Provinces for the Government of Spain to compensate for the foreseeable loss of economic resources derived from possible returns that Originate as a result of the sale of properties below the purchase price.

In this regard, the Socialist spokesman, Jose Ignacio Gras, warns that "in the first place must comply with the ruling of the Constitutional Court that modifies the criterion for calculating the tax on the revaluation of urban land throughout Spain for the damage caused To homeowners, who sold the home below the purchase price, so you can pay for a benefit that has not been obtained. "

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Therefore, in the motion states that "we agree with the Constitutional Court that surplus value violates the constitutional principle of economic capacity by not linking the benefit, but the mere ownership of the land, to the payment of capital gains tax."

Likewise, the spokesman explains that the ruling of the Constitutional Court can give rise to a number of important claims that oblige the City to return part of the collection obtained in the 4 years prior to the annulment of the surplus value and that the Federation of Municipalities and Provinces Has asked the Government of Spain for a legislative change to provide the councils with the resources they are going to lose as a result of legislative changes regarding the application of this tax, so that "it is very convenient to adhere to the petition of the rest of municipalities".

However, Gras also acknowledges that this ruling is going to mean a loss of income of the City Council, which charged for this tax 21 million euros in the Budget of 2016, so "the Government must be involved and compensate municipalities to Can continue to face their projects. "

Likewise, it proposes that the City Council facilitate to the taxpayer the recovery of the undue income.

Source: PSOE Murcia