This supposes a reduction of 90% in the rate of opening of establishments for the great surfaces of more than 400 meters of room of sales, of 40.000 € to 4.000 €, arriving to exist reductions of 67.500 € in those establishments of more than 1.000 meters of sales room.
All this, while maintaining the fiscal pressure with this ordinance to the small and medium merchants of the locality.
The reduction to large commercial areas approved by the PP was not there;
it also included the same reduction for leisure macrocenters, with a decrease of € 90,000.
Even financial institutions benefited from a reduction, in this case, of 66%.
In the opinion of the Socialist Party, this decrease for the large commercial areas clearly harms the small commerce of the locality, especially to establishments that, already of themselves, are suffering day by day to keep their businesses open.
Many lumbrerenses irrigators have also shown their surprise at the modification of this ordinance, which has been carried out without including the claims of the community of irrigators.
These claims have been on the table for many months and have been collected by the PSOE in one of its amendments voted against by the Popular Party, with the abstention of IU.
In addition, the PP and its mayor, Maria Angeles Tunisia, have opposed the socialist proposal to increase the rate to the salons of betting, at a time when this type of premises are causing a real damage to our society, seriously affecting to many citizens, with disorders such as gambling.
From the PSOE of Puerto Lumbreras is not understood that at a time when most institutions try to combat this type of premises, the Popular Party government look to the other side and facilitate its opening.
According to the General Secretary of the Socialist Party and candidate, María Rosa García, "this modification of the Fiscal Ordinance does not address the weaknesses that our Municipality currently has, and even worse, it aggravates some of the problems that we drag, damaging the small business and neglecting We are in favor of tax reductions that seek to stimulate economic activity, as long as they benefit everyone equally and not just a privileged few.In addition, this Ordinance misses the opportunity to protect the lumbrerense irrigation of the installation of photovoltaic macro plants, that seriously damage our primary sector ".
The Socialists lament the scarce negotiation capacity of the Popular Party government team, which demonstrates once again that it responds more to particular interests than to the Lumbrerenses as a whole.
Source: PSOE Puerto Lumbreras