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On August 31, 2011 was sent to all councilors and the Mayor of Murcia the following proposal, included in the program HUERMUR for election to the Board of Planters concerning the lowering of property taxes located in the Huerta de Murcia
The purpose of this proposal is to achieve social justice and non discrimination between citizens, encouraging the cultivation and care of the garden of Murcia, improving the environment of the city and the districts, and help end speculation in land and housing .
PROPOSAL:
With the approval of General Plan in 2001 the orchard floor was composed of 7277 hectares considered rural land '1.
Just three years later began the process of adaptation of the General Plan Land Law of the Region of Murcia, and in that garden procedimientoquedaron as two thirds of the initial surface, ie, 4756.7 ha, or 65, 4%.
The remaining third, about half - '5 1285 hectares, or 17.7% - Building land became Huerta Special traditional and half - 1 234, 9 acres, 17% - became linear structures in Urban Land, mostly in the category of Urban Land Force.
Therefore, it appears that 34'7% of the land in 2001 Huerta was rustic and paid IBI becomes rustic urban or developable, passing this way to pay IBI urban areas (under the Act, the land for development pay property tax and urban) upon approval of the Disposition Order of the Hon.
Mr. Director of Public Works, Housing and Transport, December 26, 2005 on the final approval of the adaptation of the General Municipal Management from Murcia to the Land Law.
This means that 2520 hectares of orchard '4 IBI became urban, disproportionately increasing the tax payable by the owners, without having been gifted or improved municipal services, just to have painted the floor a different color on a plane.
To this we add that this new Special Building land will never be built by their owners, since it takes a special plan, and today has not been promoted because they are either impractical due to the structure of ownership in the garden.
While not approving the Special Plan for the area required to build two tahullas (similar to before the reclassification).
If this change add that many of the soils classified as developable in the General Plan 2001 and formerly garden (rustic) and that their situation will never be urbanized, as is the case of a large bag of soil in Bacons Bridge (ZM-PT1, municipal public initiative) we find that all these reclassifications were absurd and without justification.
Although the serious consequences of that now much of the orchard floor is urban or building land and urban property owners pay property tax as a plot in the center of Murcia, but neither have adequate municipal services to this classification, and this has served to prevent the build illegally on the orchard floor, where construction continues to be chaotic.
That is, the reclassification produced in 2005 in the garden soil has only served to increase the edificatorio uncontrolled in the Huerta de Murcia urban and expectations of the speculators, with consequences that this entails, as the crisis speculators have abandoned gardens and are turned into dumps and landfills improvised.
To this we must add the tax collection effort of the consistory Murcia to spend that money unevenly between city dwellers and urban centers, and the inhabitants of the garden in the parishes that lack many services.
The tax money huertanos of the hamlets that pay unfairly by a garden of lettuce, the same as having a plot in the center of Murcia, is dedicated mostly to the city, which is mainly some neighborhoods clean the streets every day, make gardens and even a tram, while in parts of the parishes of the garden there is not even sewage.
Given this social injustice and discrimination is done with Murcia in the payment of Property Tax, clearly favoring the inhabitants of the city forgetting the living in the districts of the garden of Murcia, the City must establish some compensation to end this inequality and preferential treatment.
For this reason we consider from HUERMUR that a reasonable measure is the application of Article 74 of the Local Finance Law that says:
Article 74.
Bonus optional.
1.
The ordinances may regulate a tax rebate of up to 90% of the gross tax in favor of real estate located in urban areas or areas of the municipality, under the law and urban planning, correspond to population settlements singled out for its bonding or pre-eminence of the primary activities of an agricultural, livestock, forestry, fishing or similar and have a competition level municipal services, infrastructure or community facilities lower than in areas or consolidated areas of the municipality, provided that their economic warrant special protection.
The peculiar characteristics and scope of the villages, areas or zones and the types of buildings and land necessary for the implementation of this bonus and its duration, the annual amount and other formal and substantive aspects are specified in the ordinance prosecutor.
Huermur proposed that this bonus applies to real property of urban nature, consisting of urban land or housing developments that are situated in a hamlet of the municipality of Murcia and before the approval of General Plan of 2001 had the classification of agricultural land to garden and currently are engaged in agriculture or livestock (both marketing and consumption), or having vegetation species protected under current legislation, all established from a minimum size to be determined in the tax ordinance.
Huermur proposed that starting from this premise Murcia City Council amend its ordinance regulating the IBI and include the bonus 90% tax for those gardens that are located in the districts that are in operation.
This will reward those that contribute to Murcia maintaining fertile soils that regulate the microclimate of the valley, protecting it from desertification, which play the role of CO2 sink purifying the air we all breathe and keeping a place like the Garden of Murcia large environmental, cultural landscape and, ultimately, belong to all.
For those orchards located in garden soil that remain classified as rural farm and who are fulfilling the same conditions as above, it is proposed that the City included in the amendment of the ordinance a reduction in the rate.
Today, by the Municipal tax rate is set by the City for rural real estate in 0'59%.
The Act provides that the minimum tax and extension will be 0.3% for these properties.
Therefore it can lower the tax rate to match these goods to urban and reduced by 90%.
To compensate for the drop in revenue from this tax, the City should implement the surcharge that allows the Act and is set out in Article 72.4 of the Law Regulating Local Tax and says:
In the case of residential buildings that are vacant on a permanent basis to meet the criteria specified in the regulations, municipalities may require a surcharge of up to 50% of the amount of tax.
This surcharge, which will require taxpayers of this tax and that will be applicable as not provided for in this paragraph, its regulatory requirements, shall be payable on 31 December and settled annually by local councils, once observed unemployment Property, together with the administrative act by which it is declared.
That is, pay more taxes those who have permanently vacant dwellings, or speculators.
In addition to a powerful reason, which is social justice and non-discrimination among citizens, it turns out that these two measurements, one side would encourage the cultivation and care of the garden of Murcia, which would win all the better around the city and villages.
On the other hand put pressure on maintaining vacant homes to put on the market the lower prices of the sale or rental of these houses.
The establishment of these measures is the prerogative of the City of Murcia, is a decision of the Mayor, that by simply modifying the municipal ordinance regulating the levy would apply.
If the local computer can not find how to operate this initiative, from HUERMUR offer the collaboration of our advisory team to help the Guildhall in this task.
Source: HUERMUR
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