ISSUE NO. 1420
20 - 26 SEPTEMBER 2012
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Importing rubbish WASTE management company Tirme, headquartered in Palma, will get €80 million for burning rubbish exported by the UK, Ireland and Italy.
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CRACKING DOWN: Owners of homes not their primary residence may have to pay extra taxes.
Taxman gets tough to seize extra €6,415m
THE taxman is getting tougher. He is now scouring the nation to fill its coffers in the dire economic times, with businesses and property owners affected. Between January and July this year Hacienda the Spanish tax authority retrieved €6,415 million in
anti-fraud operations. This is 15.3 per cent more than during the same period last year. And €3 out of every €4 were recovered through control operations. Big taxpayers, mostly business, were responsible for paying over 27.5 per cent of the
amount clawed back. Hacienda, which expects to obtain a total of €8,171 million this year through control operations, is widening its net by requesting information from 51 banks regarding safety deposit boxes. There were 4,500 investigations into
apparently empty homes and premises with suspiciously high electricity consumption. Three out of every four examined were found to be occupied, without having been declared. Another 750 investigations centred on homes registered as principal residences which were second homes and therefore liable to a higher tax rate. Hacienda also carried out 1,700 ‘submerged economy’ operations, pinpointing tax irregularities in one-third of them.
OCCUPANCY of berths at Palma Port has fallen by 40 per cent since 2008, according to the International Association of Ports and Harbours.
Eco-petrol CO2 emissions could be reduced by 270,000 tonnes if the Baleares Environment Department and Alcudia’s Town Hall sign a plan to import ecofriendly petrol.
Fire confession THE 20-year-old son to two socialist party (PSOE and PSM) councillors was arrested and reportedly confessed to burning the mayor of Soller’s car.