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Pedro Sosa has announced that his training will ask, among other issues, the freezing of public prices and rates that affect families, a 50% reduction in water and sewerage for workers affected by ERTE's or ERE's and the self-employed, and the creation of new formulas that tax the use of the local public domain by multinationals.

"We want those who never pay to pay so that the pressure on neighbors can be lowered," said the IU-Verdes spokesman. The spokesman for Izquierda Unida-Verdes in the Lorca City Council, Pedro Sosa, has presented today, in due time and form, a package of 13 amendments to the project of fiscal ordinances of the municipal government team of PSOE and C's, in Lorca. Sosa stressed that, unlike other political groups, IU "has not written a letter to the Three Wise Men" because its formation has proposed the creation of new tax niches to "apply tax justice" and "that they pay, that they do not multinationals do so that the pressure on neighbors can be lowered ". Among them, Sosa has highlighted new formulas that tax the use of the local public domain made by "powerful" multinationals, such as Amazon, Telefónica, Iberdrola or banks, "in order to alleviate the burdens that neighbors must bear." In that sense, IU asks, for example, a new regulatory ordinance of the 'green' last mile rate for non-local e-commerce companies.

The germ of this initiative stems from a request from Lorca merchants who seek to match forces with companies without physical headquarters in the city but that do generate negative externalities with their activity, such as increased traffic and increased pollution due to the increase in the distribution of products.

In other words, "a rate that encourages sustainable mobility, and, above all,strengthen local commerce, "said Sosa. Along the same lines, IU-Verdes will request the creation of a new new rate aimed at electricity, gas and hydrocarbon companies that taxes the use they make of the local public domain, the application of a 50% surcharge in the IBI for the empty homes that are owned by banks and financial institutions, or the abolition of the exemption of the same tax for the properties of religious confessions not destined to worship. The IU-Green amendments also contemplate a 50% discount on the amount of the rate for the provision of the municipal service of drinking water supply and sewerage, to workers affected by dismissals or by employment regulation files due to force majeure as a result of the crisis caused by covid-19 and the self-employed who were forced to suspend their economic activity due to the declaration of a state of alarm due to the health emergency situation due to COVID-19. In addition, IU-Verdes requests the freezing of the public prices of the municipal schools of Music and Plastic Arts and of the Popular University (which PSOE and C's want to increase by 5%), as well as the fees for issuing administrative documents that they are "a blow" to the most disadvantaged families.

"We cannot understand that the PSOE intends to raise the necessary reports to request aid or social benefits by 358% or that they impose a new rate for the reports of suitability conditions of the houses of 73.50 euros, just double what it charges, for For example, the Barcelona City Council. Sosa explained that his municipal group cannot vote in favor of antisocial ordinances, "which raise public prices and rates for families, especially the most disadvantaged," or that he only proposes a reduction of the IBI "from which the residents will benefit.

rentiers but not all the self-employed ".

On this matter, IU-Verdes will propose the application of the model followed in other cities such as Madrid, which expressly links the discount to the rent reductions made to those owners of premises due to the suspension of activity due to the state of alarm. "PSOE and C's present a poor project, lacking ambition and innovation capacity, run over, little foresight and totally given over to inertia," said the IU-Verdes spokesman.

In addition, he recalled that the project of the municipal government team "fails to comply with what was agreed with Izquierda Unida and that is why last year we gave a critical yes to the 2020 tax ordinances," concluded Sosa.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca