The popular ones encourage citizens to review what fees they have paid to clarify any doubts about it, since the law establishes that if the activity has not been carried out, the city council has the obligation to refund the money that has been collected.The councilor of the Popular Party in the City of Lorca, Juan Miguel Bayonas, has reported that the City Council has to return 100% of the amount of the municipal fees that have been paid for services not provided to citizens during the period of confinement.
Citizens in general should review what rates they have been able to pay for services that they have not obtained since the state of alarm was decreed, since the city council has a legal obligation to return it to them.
That is why the current government team should act accordingly, and proceed to automatically reimburse the amounts it has charged for unrealized actions to citizens in services such as municipal school of plastic and performing arts, popular university, municipal nursery of companies, courses for the elderly and / or women,sports activities in closed municipal facilities, municipal nurseries ...From the PP they have indicated that we must remember that, according to the Law, if the service has not been enjoyed by the user, the taxable event has not occurred, and therefore can not be charged by the city council.
Thus, in the event that any amount has been collected, your return will be made.
This is the case, for example, of the fees for the use of the local public domain that could not be made due to the conjuncture generated by COVID-19.
To give concrete examples, this situation includes the occupancy rates paid by the vendors of the markets, or the tables and chairs on the terraces of the hotel establishments.
The city council has to return the amount that the people of Lorca have paid for these issues, since the taxable event has not occurred.Juan Miguel Bayonas explained that on the part of the municipal services financed through fees that have been suspended by the decree of the state of alarm, it is not appropriate to pay the corresponding fees while the restrictions that prevent the execution of the activity are maintained.
, and in the case that the citizens have already paid them, the city council has the obligation to return the money.Throughout the last days, and especially in the last week, there are constant requests for information from citizens that are precisely related to the payment of these municipal taxes.
They lack the clarification of these issues from the current local government, so from the Popular Party we put at your disposal our office in the town hall for any matter that requires information.
We remain at your disposal on the phone: 968 479 711
Source: PP Lorca