24 May 2013 3:27 PM:
I havent posted for a while or indeed been on this site! so here goes..... Irene I believe you are incorrect. The town hall have replaced the old 'Basura' tax with a environmental tax. Additionally all the taxes i.e. IBI IVTM etc are now payable in two installments this is the same weather you are a resident or not.
However if you are on the 'empadramiento' before 31/12/2012 (i think thats how you spell it) and you do not owe anything to the town hall from previous years then you only pay the first payment which for IBI is due by end of May in order to get 5% discount and the new environment tax is due 10th June. In this instance you do not pay the second installment which effectively is equivalent to the 30% discount we used to get off the old system (again which only applied if you were on the empadramiento.
Its immaterial weather you pay by direct debit, online or cash at the counter the same rules apply. Overall i think the taxes are up a little compared to what i remember paying last year.
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