EH Bildu, PSN, Geroa Bai and Contigo-Zurekin have denounced that the UPN mayors have “misled citizens and damaged the municipal treasury”. Cristina Ibarrola has defended herself by denying that she hid anything: “It was a first draft, it could not be considered finished,” she said.
EH Bildu, PSN, Geroa Bai and Contigo Navarra-Zurekin Nafarroa They reported this on Friday the UPN mayors have “allowed” Pamplona to lose 30 million euros by 2021 “knowingly” for concealing a report of the appraisal presentation to update the cadastral values.
All municipal groups are very angry about this issue.
The Mayor of Pamplona, Joseba Asirón, of EH Bildu, has asked for his resignation because he believes that those responsible for UPN and who have “hidden in a drawer” the updates of the city’s cadastral valuation report should go home today.
Asiron has explained to the media that the valuation report is a document “which serves to calculate what the municipal council must pay for properties located within the municipal area, houses, apartments, etc. and therefore it is a very important source of income.” .”
It is a presentation, he stressed, that “must be updated periodically, because if it is not, it will lose its value due to inflation,” but Pamplona “has not updated its valuation presentation for 25 years, with all that entails.” In 2016, Asiron has noted, the EH Bildu mayoral office began a partial update and a new assessment report was commissioned in 2018.
He has reported that they have demanded that the assessment be carried out and now they have found out that it has been carried out “and they had kept it, they had hidden it in a drawer since 2021, which meant that Pamplona stopped coming in about 10 million per year, that is a total of 30 million euros.”
“Opportunity” discovery
The municipal representatives are said to have found out ‘accidentally’, after a committee appearance by the technicians of the public company Tracasa, who reported that the technical work had already been completed in 2021 in order to approve the new municipal valuation report.
Of the PSN-PSOEyour spokesperson, Marina Curielpointed out that “the surprise was when we discovered that even though the work was completed in 2021, it was Navarra Suma’s order to stop the said update.”
From the Socialist Municipal Group they regret that “due to the irresponsibility in the municipal management of the right and the negligence of UPN in the short legislature of Ibarrola, the presentation has not been updated and we cannot include tax credits of up to 90% for large groups.” families, single parents with a low income and for people with, among other things, non-contributory pensions, a guaranteed income or a vital minimum.
For the spokesperson of Geroa Bai, Mikel Armendariz“UPN and its mayors have deliberately caused Pamplona-Iruña to lose 30 million euros since 2021.” “Enrique Maya and UPN, although they knew it was necessary to update the assessment report, did not do so to avoid contribution to the citizens of Iruña. 2023,” added.
In the same way, Txema Mauleón, from Contigo-Zurekin, has denounced that “Enrique Maya and Cristina Ibarrola have concealed vital information, lied and defrauded the citizens of Pamplona” and that the withholding of this report has had “very serious consequences for the economic solvency of the city”.
Ibarrola denies having hidden anything: “It was a first draft, it could not be considered finished”
For her part, the former mayor of Pamplona and spokesperson for UPN in the city council, Cristina Ibarrolahas defended itself against the accusations by denying that it had concealed the cadastral valuation update document and pointing out that it was a “first draft with significant imbalances that could not be considered completed”.
The former mayor explained that if that design had been taken into account, residents of neighborhoods with lower purchasing power would have paid more taxes and it would have been a “fine”, adding that UPN prefers that ‘that money in the pockets of the citizens’ because it is not their priority to ‘raise taxes.
He has defended that the work was not yet finished, that it would be ready in November 2024 and that he intended it to come into force in January 2025.
“On April 26, it was said that it was not yet finished. Why did we find a document that the technicians asked not to leak? Some information cannot be given that is a hoax. 30 million is science fiction. With an unfinished document that is not the case.” I knew what the amount would be,” he concluded.
Source: EITB
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