In September last year, the municipalities of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, including the town, they signed an agreement that the regional government would gradually paying debt with the consistory had a ceiling set in 2017.
The debt of the autonomous region to the Alhama de Murcia City Council amounted to 586 410 euros amount came mostly from unpaid grants.
The local government team chose not to subscribe to that agreement and reach a compensation agreement.
That is, the municipal coffers to stop paying their debts Autonomous Community to settle the debt recorded.
Angel Canovas, Councillor for Finance, who was aware of this at a news conference management, clarified that "this will permit a financial cushion and treasury to meet annual payments that we make to the Autonomous such as provincial surcharge the business tax or our contribution to the Consortium for Fire Fighting (230,000 per year).
Once the compensation procedure, it was found that "the former government team did not pay any surcharge since 2008 by the provincial business tax, ie the tax that although we charge corresponds to the region", clarified the mayor who pointed out that the debt generated thereon amounted to a total of 329 801 euros.
Moreover, the city of Alhama de Murcia has to pay the amount of 230 788 euros by the Consortium for Fire Fighting, amount provided in the budget of 2013.
This amount, added to the above will be compensated with C.
Autonomous in charge of your debt, the rest remaining as the amount of 25,820 euros for the city of Alhama de Murcia.
This operation will take almost for settlement of the liabilities that the Regional Government has recognized the local finance and goes "once again, the day of payment," concluded the head of Finance Municipal Consistory.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia