"With the signing of this agreement we recover for our city the tax liquidation office that was lost in Pepe Moreno's mandate. The Autonomous Community will put at our disposal a central office, equipped with the latest technologies and serviced by Community officials to avoid displacements to the neighbors ", explained José Santiago Villa
The liquidation office will return to Caravaca after this measure was approved in the Plenary held last night and after its march in the last legislature "by an arbitrary decision of the then socialist team headed by Pepe Moreno that had no alternative plan and that we have tried to solve" , as explained by the spokesperson of the Popular Group, José Villa.
The popular spokesman has stressed that the approval of the collaboration agreement with the Tax Agency of the Region of Murcia reflects that there is a government team that makes decisions to improve collection efficiency and service to citizens, who will not have to travel outside Caravaca for these efforts.
"With the signing of this agreement, we recover for our city the tax liquidation office that was lost in Pepe Moreno's mandate. The Autonomous Community will put at our disposal a central office, equipped with the latest technologies and serviced by Community officials such as public service that is, "added Villa.
Villa recalled that the inaction of the last four years has had devastating effects for the City Council, giving as examples that the debt with the Commonwealth of Social Services was higher than they found, also that of the UNED, which It has managed the cancellation of the debt of 180,000 or the average period of payment to suppliers above what they found.
"This has resulted in a serious warning by the Treasury for the 2018 data that has forced us to take drastic measures and this is one of those measures," Villa explained.
The popular spokesman has explained that one of the big problems that Caravaca City Council is dragging is economic management, and measures are being taken to solve it.
"We approved the municipal budgets in our first month at the head of the government team, which allowed us to face investments and payments that would otherwise have been impossible. We have refinanced the loans to give oxygen to the municipal treasury for the next five years and now we have approved this agreement with the Tax Agency of the Region of Murcia, which we are convinced will improve the data of tax collection in our municipality, "Villa has listed.
According to Villa, the inadequacy of means causes poor management in the municipal area of ​​Tax Management and Collection, which implies a lack of efficiency in the collection of public revenues.
"There is only one employee for taxes with complex tasks and who must also pay attention to the public, which leads to inevitable delays, and in addition the lack of personnel also causes that the standards of some taxes are not updated, there are 415,000 euros (only in 2019) suspended due to lack of knowledge of the owner ".
In reference to the economic management of the PSOE, Villa recalled that they did not lower the debt beyond the loan installments, increased the debt with the Commonwealth of Social Services, left the average payment term to suppliers over how it was they found, they failed in two million in the budgets and they did not take measures.
Source: PP Caravaca de la Cruz