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House calls upon the Central Government 1,100 million to offset cuts in transfers to municipalities (19/02/2009)

Of the 8,000 million for the Local Investment Plan, the consistory must subtract the tax and Social Security contributions, which will return to state

Chamber participates in Valencia in the first Forum of Regional Associations of Neighbors, which called for keeping the Tajo-Segura

Along with the heads of the Territorial Federations of Municipalities of Madrid, Valencia, Castilla y Leon and La Rioja calls a 'fee 0' of the General Society of Authors

The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, participated in the first Regional Forum of Federations of Municipalities, consists of officials from the Federation of Municipalities and Provinces of Castilla y León, Murcia, Madrid, La Rioja and Valencia.

The Mayor's House, along with the other participants in the meeting, asked the central government to the 1,100 million euros in VAT from State Fund to return to Spanish municipalities as current transfers.

In addition, the Chamber added that urgently requires an increase in current transfers to compensate for the costs to the consistory for substances that are not within its competence.

Mayor House has insisted that the water should be a factor of cohesion and territorial structure of Spain, uniting people rather than confront them as intended by the PSOE and the Government of Navarra.

Consequently, it is urgent considering the need to maintain and encourage transfers of water from surplus to deficit basins, so explicitly support maintaining the current scheme of the Tajo-Segura that supply more than 3 million people 77 municipalities in the southeast of Spain.

The result of this meeting held in Valencia has been an Institutional Declaration which, among other things, calls for the central government a solution to the problem of local financing.

Thus, from the Federation of Municipalities warns that the overall decline of the Spanish economy has a particular impact on the municipal coffers, and we add the structural problem of local funding that is being dragged in Spain because, among other things , services provided by municipalities without their competence, as the administration closer to its neighbors and responsive to your request.

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Among other issues, the meeting served to ask the General Society of Authors of Spain called Tarifa 0 for all public events and holidays as well as demonstrations of the municipalities, associations organized by holiday.

In this sense, it requires the National Government amending the legislation to avoid double taxation and abusive situations.

Miguel Angel House warning that the current crisis also greatly affects the municipalities and their cultural programs and festivals, and advocates avoid losing traditions or are constrained by financial constraints of this nature.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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