The Yaiza government group, chaired by Óscar Noda, definitively approved the modification of the ordinance regulating the Tax on Real Estate (IBI) in the Plenary last Friday, confirming for 2019 the reduction of the tax rate from 0.53 to 0.512, ensuring several bonuses for the benefit of citizens within the framework of the Local Finance Law and extending the deadline for submitting applications until January 31 so that residents of the municipality can benefit from all the tax benefits related to the IBI. The City Council ratifies the 60% deduction for large families, 50% for the installation of renewable energy and 50% for newly built homes.
"We continue to act with the responsibility that has allowed us to bring the City Council to a situation of budgetary stability and sanitation of municipal accounts without increasing the tax pressure on citizens in any case and investing in works as was not done in Yaiza years ago. We have never raised taxes because obviously the residents are not to blame for the administrative disaster we encountered in 2011 when I took over the Economy and Finance Area of the Institution," said the mayor, Óscar Noda.
In addition, the government group emphasizes that with the one in 2019, "Yaiza adds the fourth consecutive drop in the IBI tax rate as a responsible measure to mitigate the tax burden on more than 14,000 taxpayers and the effects of the review of cadastral values and cadastral regularization that the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Spain has been executing in recent years, a fact that citizens have been able to notice in the IBI receipts."
Bonuses
In the case of large families in Yaiza who have access to the 60% bonus, they must submit their application to the City Council accrediting the registration, the current large family title, issued by the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, and a copy of the annual IBI receipt. The bonus will be maintained for each year, without the need to reiterate the application, as long as the conditions that motivated its application are maintained. This is the habitual residence of the family, understood as that urban unit of residential use exclusively intended to satisfy the permanent housing need of the owner or owners and their family.
On the other hand, Yaiza grants a 50% bonus on the full IBI fee to purely residential homes in which thermal or electrical energy systems from the sun have been installed for self-consumption, being an essential requirement that these systems have been installed voluntarily. This 50 percent bonus is the maximum allowed by the Local Finance Law.
The application of this bonus will be conditional on the facilities for the production of heat including collectors that have the corresponding approval by the Ministry of Industry of the Government of the Canary Islands. The tax benefit will have a maximum duration of five years from the installation of the systems. The bonus will be granted at the request of the interested parties and will be granted whenever the tax payments are domiciled in a financial institution.
New homes
Likewise, Yaiza applies a 50% bonus on the IBI fee for citizens or companies that build new homes or execute a comparable rehabilitation. The benefit rises to 90% when it comes to the construction of officially protected housing. The application period in these cases expires the year after the completion of the work.
The City Council also reminds that it maintains the 5% bonus on the full fee for all citizens who domicile the IBI and all taxes if they do so before the start of the voluntary collection period or during the first 20 days of said period.
For any questions or queries, citizens can go to the Collection area of the City Council, both in person and by contacting the telephone number 928836212, and they can also call the City Council switchboard telephone number 928836220.