"The model of the city of Madrid is in opposition to that of the Government of the nation. We
alleviate the tax burden with concrete measures
since it is not the time to raise taxes or charge more taxes ... You can have better public services and more infrastructures,
paying the citizen less
".
This is how the mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida valued the new project of fiscal ordinances for the year 2022 approved yesterday by the Governing Board of the Madrid City Council, which will be submitted to the Plenary Session and which, if approved, will entail a reduction in the tax rate General Property Tax (IBI),
from 0.456% to 0.428%, which will save 60 million
euros for residents of the capital.
In his three years in office, his team has carried out
three consecutive drops
in the IBI, something that translates, as the councilor highlighted yesterday, into 300 million euros in savings, an amount that
rises to 500 million
if they take into account the total taxes that Madrid residents have avoided paying to the Consistory in the last three years.
Measures, he insisted, that move away from those of the Pedro Sánchez government, whose policies "
have aggravated Madrid with tax increases
and messages of legal insecurity", but which have not prevented the capital "from leaving before the economic and social crisis of the pandemic.
We walk in a different direction
.
We are the locomotive of Spain and 2022 will be decisive for the economic recovery ".
Benefits 2.2 million IBI receipts
Along with Almeida there was also the deputy mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, who detailed in a more exhaustive way how next year's tax changes will affect the whole of Madrid. "
2.2 million IBI receipts will benefit.
Of these, 1.5 million will be receipts for homes, 96,200 for commercial premises, 30,000 for offices, 11,000 for industrial buildings and 7,200 for leisure premises," he said, making Emphasis on the objective of reducing the general tax rate of the IBI
to the legal minimum (0.4%)
in the current legislature, which ends in 2023.
Regarding the Tax on Economic Activities (IAE), any company that starts its activity will be exempt from paying this fee during the first two tax years, as established by state regulations, and
the bonus of 50%
of the municipal fee will
be extended
during the third, fourth and fifth tax periods.
A bonus of 50% of the IAE fee is also established for the
installation of systems for the use of solar
and geothermal energy.
In addition, the 2020 bonuses of up to 90% in the IBI for large families are maintained based on the cadastral value of the property, a measure that
benefits more than 22,500 families
who will be able to have a reduction in their bills and save three million euros .
The
50% discount for officially protected housing
is also maintained
during the three tax periods following the granting of the qualification.
"The price of electricity, gasoline ... the cost of living is higher. But
when everything goes up, the Madrid City Council goes down. It
helps people to improve their economic situation," said the deputy mayor.
Criticisms of the opposition
Words that did not convince the opposition parties. More Madrid and the PSOE agreed to censor the tax cuts policy because it
"only favors" the highest incomes
and because "it worsens the quality of public services in the city."
The most vehement was the PSOE spokesperson, Mar Espinar, who began by claiming that the Madrid City Council cannot take heart due to the state of its services and public infrastructures. "The liberal mantra of lower taxes
is already so weary and children as demagogic
, because only favors higher incomes and suffer the worse. The people are really going wrong, and no longer strains that
flower power
against taxes, because it
is time to help the neighbors, not to distribute the cake,
"said Espinar, adding that it is" absolutely false that the people of Madrid are better than before. "
For her part, for the spokeswoman for Más Madrid, Rita Maestre, the budget equation is "very simple": "
When you enter less, you spend less
."
"It is shameful that Almeida boasts of having entered 500 million euros less during his tenure, because those millions are resources that
have not been directed to cleaning the streets of Madrid
, which is sad to see, to build libraries or in rent aids for the young people, "concluded Maestre.
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