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| Isabel García: "The only effective measures such as the exemption of fees in markets or terraces have been promoted by MC Cartagena" | This morning, the councilor of the Municipal Group MC Cartagena, Isabel García, has censured "the hypocrisy of the local government to use the money from the so-called Contingency Fund to cover the snip that had previously been made in the game for social assistance, in Social Services , which went from more than one and a half million euros in 2019 to seventy thousand euros in 2020.
" In this sense, the mayor has also remarked that the data on the degree of execution of the 2020 budget confirm that, as of June 30, "absolutely nothing had been executed from the Contingency Fund (1,138,887 euros).
A new example of the "intentional abandonment with which the local government has subjected SMEs and the self-employed in the hardest moments of the crisis caused by COVID-19." After putting the accent on the accounting aspects, García has lamented the "opaque attitude of the Executive when refusing to answer our question during the Plenary on the fate of the Contingency Plan.
They did so in writing to avoid saying by voice that this Plan has been used to partly bypass the shameful cut they planned in social spending.
" At the same time, the councilor of MC Cartagena has remarked that for the Executive it has been a "priority" to allocate some 50,000 euros from the Contingency Fund to communication campaigns and 80,000 euros for the acquisition of hotel nights and other promotional events through Puerto of Cultures.
"The rest, Trinca-style, they have withheld to balance the budget." MC promotes the exemption in the payment of market or terrace fees Subsequently, Isabel García confirmed that the Contingency Fund has not served to help companies alleviate the effects of the pandemic, making it clear that the only effective measures have been promoted from MC Cartagena, the Government being forced to "accept" them.
Such are the cases of "the exemptions in the payment of the fees of the terraces, kiosks or markets to help the commerce and the hotel industry".
"Everyone has been able to benefit because it has been applied automatically by the City Council.
Less success has been the help in paying the water and garbage bill, which was upon request from the interested parties, and which has only reached four hundred SMEs or self-employed of the more than eleven thousand in the municipality Obviously there has been poor communication or dissemination of the initiative,We do not know if it was intentional, "the mayor has reasoned. "And the worst of the case," added the councilor, is that "as confirmed by the president of the ADLE, to date, Hidrogea has only paid about 183 of those granted, charged to the misnamed social fund." To conclude, García regretted that the Government "did not park its complexes for a moment and vetoed our proposal to modify the 2021 tax ordinances.
The objective was to make them a useful tool that would serve to mitigate the effects of COVID -19, lowering the tax burden on individuals and entrepreneurs.
They were acceptable and most have already been launched in other municipalities.
In Cartagena, the Government chose to continue making residents pay for their grotesque disability.
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Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena
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