On Wednesday 29th of March, the Mijas Town Hall gave the go-ahead in the ordinary plenary session to a measure that will benefit the most established residents of the municipality and will not encourage speculation. This is the provisional approval of the modification of the ordinance regulating the tax on the increase in the value of urban land, known as plusvalia, a modification that will mean a reduction in the tax rate from 30% to 22% for those properties that have been owned by a person for 20 years or more.

The objective, according to the mayor of Mijas, Josele González (PSOE), who announced the measure the day before together with the councillor for the Treasury, Roy Pérez (PSOE), is to “protect the residents”, above all, “in those cases of ‘mortis causa’ where the inheritance of a property is generated”. 

In this way, “all those citizens of Mijas who have owned a property for more than 20 years, whatever its characteristics, will see a reduction of up to eight points in this capital gains tax”, added the mayor, who wanted to clarify that they will “maintain the maximum tax on properties that have been owned for less time”, since “there are people who buy and the following year sell precisely because of the property speculation suffered on the Costa del Sol”.

“We wanted to apply the reduction in this section because it is the largest and usually affects inheritances, so from a social point of view it will benefit many residents of the municipality”, said councillor for Finance, Roy Pérez (PSOE), adding that “ the Mijas Town Hall will no longer collect around 1.3 million euros per year, but the economic situation of the council is good and it can bear this reduction without the slightest inconvenience”.

The spokesman for the Municipal Group Ciudadanos, José Carlos Martín, also agreed on this point, recalling that “until this year, all taxes have been frozen, we have had surpluses year after year and this is proof that the government team has been rigorous and serious in its management, which now allows us to implement this type of reductions”.

During the round of interventions, the Partido Popular councillor, Mario Bravo, criticised the local Executive for having presented this tax reduction before approving the municipal budgets for 2023, “which is the axis of operation of the Town Hall, but they are adopting individual measures that seem more like patches”, to which the councillor for Finance clarified that “the decision to lower the capital gains tax has been taken with the approval of the Town Hall technicians and also because we were committed to reviewing this ordinance following the ruling of the Constitutional Court”. 

The non-attached councillor, Esperanza Jiménez, proposed “lowering or removing taxes taking into account people’s income”. On this, Pérez explained that “it is not possible because that is what the law stipulates, but there are bonuses and exemptions in this tax ordinance”. 

The measure went ahead with the vote of the entire corporation except for the non-attached councillor Carlos Rivero, who abstained.

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