"The current rulers only think about collecting more and more. They are satisfied that this year the IBI register increases by one million euros, but they are not concerned about the effort that the citizens of the municipality of Teguise have to make to face the payment of this tax, plus the annual percentage increase in values (10 percent) until reaching the one set by the Ponencia", says the CC spokesperson in La Villa, Juan Pedro Hernández.
Hernández argues the presentation of this motion in that "domestic economies are not going through their best moment: high cost in the shopping basket, increase in mortgages, start of the school year, increase in unemployment... All this makes it really difficult to make ends meet", he points out.
To counteract his proposal, and "in order not to diminish the capacity of the Teguise City Council to face municipal expenses and investments", CC proposes that this measure be compensated "in the income chapter with a constant improvement of the registers, both of this same tax and of the different municipal fees and taxes. That is, everyone pays to pay less, and in the expense chapter, with the containment of personnel expenses and reduction of current expenses".
IMPORTANT, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE
According to the nationalist municipal group, "the Real Estate Tax (IBI) of an urban nature is one of the most important resources that Local Corporations have, but all municipal taxation should not fall solely on this tax".
"As we know, the quota of this tax depends on the cadastral values and the tax rate that is applied", says the spokesperson for Coalición Canaria in the Teguise City Council, Juan Pedro Hernández, who adds that "the resulting valuation report in the last update of the cadastral values in our municipality suffered a considerable increase compared to the previous report. If we do not modify the current tax rate, the quota to be paid amounts to high amounts for the taxpayer".
Hernández argues that "the economic policy carried out by Coalición Canaria in Teguise, in the period that we governed, is that a strong fiscal pressure should not fall on the citizen, so we lowered the tax rate twice and, in addition, we included in our electoral program for this legislature, to continue with the policy of tax reduction. In addition, we presented a motion at the beginning of this year in that same sense, called We Lower Taxes, without this government group of the PIL-PSOE being sensitive to this issue".
As a parallel measure to the reduction of municipal taxes, the nationalists request that economic studies be carried out, on an annual basis, "to allow to continue reducing the tax rates and thus cushion the increases that originate from the annual increase in the cadastral value and do not suppose any strangulation to the municipal finances, while carrying out an annual plan to reduce unnecessary Current Expenses and a personnel policy strictly in accordance with the current municipal Job Position List (R.P.T.)".
