The Municipal Spokesman of IU-Green in the City of Lorca, Pedro Sosa, accompanied this morning to the County CCOO Secretary, Angel Torregrosa and the Regional Secretary of the Area of ​​Women, Anna Mellado, in a joint press conference held in the premises that the union has in the neighborhood of San Cristóbal.
In the same have shown the need to start an information campaign in which to publicize the content of the ruling of the Supreme Court on 3 October, which sets as a legal doctrine that maternity benefits are exempt from tax by IRPF.
As a result of this ruling, the Government of the Nation, through the website of the Tax Agency, is enabling hundreds of thousands of people, who were fathers and mothers between 2014 and 2017, to request the return of the deductions. that in those exercises they practiced social security for their maternity and paternity benefits.
There is a problem of deadlines, since the retention of deductions for benefits performed in the 2014 and 2015 periods must be requested before December 31, 2018. Those of the following two years may be required throughout the month of January 2019.
This measure could affect several thousand citizens of Lorca, taking into account that the official statistical data place in more than 4,000 the births of children who were registered in the municipality of Lorca during the years cited that affects in content of the sentence.
Given the figures, Sosa has requested that from the City Council, and through the Department of Family and Social Welfare, try to give a broad coverage so that this right to the refund of the deductions reaches the maximum number of possible people.
The councilor of IU affirms that from his political group some working mothers have already been helped to process the return application electronically.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca