The Waste Tax of the Waste Law and Local Financing Focus the IV Ágora Meeting

The president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Toni Pérez, inaugurated this morning at the MARQ the conclusions session of the IV Ágora Meeting on Local Financing. The session focused on analyzing the problems and concerns that tax management and collection pose to local entities, including the waste collection tax resulting from the new waste law. Suma Gestión Tributaria hosted this meeting, which started last Thursday and is promoted by the FEMP and the Provincial Council of Badajoz.

Toni Pérez highlighted the "opportunity and convenience" of this session, which brings together technicians from provincial and insular tax management organizations, autonomous communities, and municipalities, "to analyze the new challenges and difficulties that municipalities face in terms of tax management."

In this regard, he referred to the new waste tax that municipalities must apply in compliance with Law 7/2022, as well as the advisory and support role that Suma is playing.

"Suma has managed to channel and support the councils in the face of this new waste law," said the president, who argued that "the Government of Spain has imposed a 'big tax' on all municipalities, instead of assuming its responsibility by introducing a new tax. Thanks to Suma, more than 110 councils are managing the application of this law, which has been imposed on municipal entities by legal imperative of a Government that is focused on other matters and not on addressing the needs of families," he insisted.

Local financing was another topic that focused the debate at this IV Ágora Meeting. Toni Pérez stated that "the FEMP has been advocating for local financing because with the advent of the autonomous state, the administration closest to the citizen, which is the municipality, has been the most affected in the distribution. Successive governments have only attended to this autonomous deployment without addressing the next level," and he pointed out that "local financing must have nuances, it cannot be linear and it cannot be underfunded. This is a general claim of all municipalities in Spain."