The Treasury area of the Tías City Council, led by Councilor Tomás Silvera, has carried out a tax inspection with limited verification of the municipality's vacation homes. This action has made it possible to regularize the tax situation of numerous properties that were being taxed incorrectly.
According to data sent by the Government of the Canary Islands in September, there were a total of 1,585 vacation homes operating in the municipality of Tías. However, of these homes, 1,117 were being taxed as domestic waste, that is, as a residential home and not as a business or classified activity.
As a result of this situation, the Tías City Council has generated 1,030 limited verification files, which do not necessarily equate to the total number of homes, since in some cases several files have been created for the same home due to changes in ownership. Likewise, the files were generated per owner, including in a single file all the vacation homes they own.
The Councilor for Economy and Finance, Tomás Silvera, states that from the Tías City Council “we have worked to correct a situation that generated a comparative grievance between taxpayers. Vacation homes that operate as an economic activity must be taxed correctly, as other businesses in the municipality do.”
The amount settled after this inspection amounts to 101,852.17 euros. This amount corresponds to the regularization of taxes that should have been paid in accordance with current regulations.
In the 2025 collection register, these homes already appear with the correct taxation. The inspection was carried out in accordance with the regulations, allowing its collection with retroactive effect of up to four years from its commissioning.
In addition, the process contemplated a period of allegations for those cases in which the homes no longer operated as vacation homes or in which the owners were unaware that the license was still active in the register of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Silvera thanks the public employees of the Treasury area of the Tías City Council “for their effort in carrying out this work with their own resources, thus allowing better fiscal control of the municipality.” This work, he adds, “will contribute to making Tías a fairer municipality in tax matters and to ensuring that each taxpayer pays what corresponds to them.”
This is the second major inspection promoted by the Treasury department. The first was aimed at energy, water, gas and telecommunications supply companies, which were not correctly declaring gross income to settle the 1.5% tax in the midst of rising prices for consumers. In fact, 122,740 euros have been collected as a result of the inspection of electricity companies.
Likewise, Tomás Silvera announces that his department has initiated the procedures to modify the IBI tax ordinance in order to adapt it to the Housing Law.
