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The plenum of the municipal corporation has approved in special session today Texts Ordinances Tax and Fees for 2010 with the revision of fees for sanitation and sewage treatment and garbage, and the Draft Ordinance Regulating Attorney Fees for Provision of Urban Services for next year also, as was contained in the agenda.

The Councillor responsible for Finance Area, José Cabezas, has been in charge of defending the tax proposal of the government team in 2010, having gone through the governing body and finance Information Commission, and assured once again that the City Council adapts to the times of crisis that run with restraint and moderation in the rate rise and the tax freeze, making a great effort that will result in a reduction in expenditure will be reflected in future budgets.

Thus, the twenty existing fees and taxes, freeze all but three.

The reading of the Citizens Movement spokesman, Luis Carlos Garcia has been, however, negative stressing that what has emerged is a rise in rates and taxes will exacerbate the crisis and recession, which voted against the proposal, encouraging the minimization of the tax burden.

He has also voted against the socialist municipal group, whose councilman, Angel Rafael Martínez, has appealed to the need to review the concession system of municipal services to private companies, since the rates of these services are rising, in Apparently, in disproportionate numbers.

Eventually the proposal was approved with the votes for the PP, as has happened with the draft Tax Ordinance 2010 Regulating Fees for Provision of Urban Services, which has been defended by the Town Planning, Joaquín Segado, to be as fair as the license fees be paid by each citizen who requests it will be proportional to the value of the work.

As for the criticism of the Socialists on the lack of exemptions and rebates to encourage the construction sector, Segado claimed that, currently, the City of Cartagena is the most projects of public housing is being launched and is also a leader in the use of renewable energies in rehabilitation of the facades of listed buildings.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena