The project maintains the tax policy of recent years and preserves existing discounts on the main municipal taxes. The main change affecting bills will be the 2.5% update, equivalent to the CPI, for water supply and waste collection and treatment fees. The sewage and wastewater treatment fee, however, will remain frozen after reaching a financial balance between revenue and expenditure.
According to simulations carried out by municipal services, the increase will have an annual impact of 3.73 euros for a two-person household, 4.42 euros for a three-person household, 4.93 euros for a four-person home and 6.46 euros for a seven-member family. The project also maintains reduced rates for households with lower financial means and freezes public prices for swimming pools, nursery schools and sports and cultural facilities.
FREE BLUE AND ORANGE ZONE PARKING FOR SOME GROUPS
Among the changes added to the project is a measure concerning regulated parking: families with children aged between zero and three will be able to park one vehicle free of charge in the blue and orange zones. The measure was proposed in a Vox amendment that passed in the Finance Committee with the support of the People’s Party and unaffiliated councillor Marisa Gaspar.
Vox also backed other changes concerning parking, such as keeping the surcharge for exceeding the time limit at eight euros instead of raising it to 20 euros, and halving the new professional permits for self-employed workers, businesses and workshops. These proposals did not pass. The group also called for property tax to remain at the legal minimum, citing it as one of the conditions that, according to its spokesperson, Eva Torres, her party presented to the People’s Party in order to support the municipal government in 2019.
For its part, Zaragoza en Común voted against the Tax Ordinances as a whole and called for the waste and water fees to be withdrawn, arguing that the financial studies contain errors in the calculation of costs. The group maintains that, if the municipal government does not correct those figures, the 2.5% increase should be frozen.
