In 2006 the Motril Town Hall under a coalition administration revised the Catastro, recalculating property values at the height of the boom. Consequently, the calculations are far removed from today’s reality.

The actual prices, for example, of flats down on Playa Granada or Playa de Poniente are far below the 2006 prices but the high Catastro calculations mean that they are paying more than is logical for their rubbish collection, amongst other things.

For this reason, the main business associations, backed by the Motril Chamber of Commerce, headed by Sr. Ángel Gijón, have taken this complaint to the Town Hall, pointing out that by law the Catastro value of a property cannot exceed the market price of the same by more than 50%.

The business associations want the Catastro revised and brought down. However, the Town Hall has a different plan, which is to lower the IBI tax. In other words, the Catastro value will remain over priced but the amount of tax you pay on that value will be reduced for 2015.

So, how much tax does that Town Hall take for this concept? Well, in 2006 the public coffers took in nine million euros in the form of IBI. The 2013 figure was fifteen million…

Councillor Garcia Fuentes explained that this increase was because there were more properties, which increased in number from 42,000 in 2006 to 56,000 in 2013.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)