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The Popular Party has refused to accept the two proposals that the PSOE in the last plenary proposed to relieve local taxpayers pocket Lorca.

On the one hand, the PP has refused to freeze taxes and public fees charged to citizens for services provided by the City Council and for which the municipality intends to increase its revenue by more than 800,000 euros in 2011 "at the expense of taxing Lorca pocket. "

Francisco Jodar and his team have also rejected the PSOE's proposal to eliminate "unnecessary costs" included in the budget with the 300,000 euros of local television.

In addition, the PP did not accept the proposal of the socialists to freeze the property tax bill so that the City put its citizens to fiscal pressure "extreme", explained Councillor for Economic Affairs and spokesman of the PSOE, Isidro Abellán.

The PSOE mayor said that next year the City will enter only through direct taxation, two million, nearly 8% more than in 2010.

Of this amount, 1.7 million were urban tax bill that will increase by 11.64% on average.

To Abellán, this increase "abysmal", is mainly due to "catastrazo" which was applied in Lorca in 2004, which was determined by changes in the Law Regulating Local Tax and Real Estate Cadastre, approved by the government Aznar's PP.

However, there are ways by which municipalities can reduce the tax burden on its citizens in the tax bill, as explained Abellán.

According to the spokesman for Economic Affairs, PSOE, the session can not act on the rateable value, but on the tax rate, which determines the City Council in its financial controls.

According to Abella, in Lorca that rate is fixed at 0.675%, but the law says it can vary from a low of 0.40% and a maximum of 1.10%.

That is, that the city of Lorca can edit down what would the tax bill for citizens not to go up at least until 2014.

A proposal by the Mayor PSOE PP, Francisco Jodar, rejected in the House, although the City would continue entering one million euros more than last year in taxes.

To Abellán, the PP has no political will to help the pockets of citizens and also Jódar Lorca misled when he said that would lower taxes on citizens if he became mayor of Lorca.

In fact, since coming into office only tax bill has increased more than 40%.

Source: PSOE Lorca