ISSUE NO. 1420
20 - 26 SEPTEMBER 2012
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FRONT EXTRA
Temporary public work HUERCAL DE ALMERIA plans temporary work contracts for 14 unemployed, partly funded by the employment services, to improve public spaces.
Killer fight IN Almeria, 8,000 breast scans are performed annually the local Cancer Association reported. CRACKING DOWN: Owners of homes not their primary residence may have to pay extra taxes.
Taxman gets tough to seize extra €6,415m
THE taxman is getting tougher. He is now scouring the nation to fill its coffers in the dire economic times, with businesses and property owners
affected. Between January and July this year Hacienda the Spanish tax authority - retrieved €6,415 million in antifraud operations. This is 15.3 per cent more than during the same period last year. And €3 out of every €4 were recovered through control operations. Big taxpayers, mostly business, were responsible for paying over 27.5 per cent of
the amount clawed back. Hacienda, which expects to obtain a total of €8,171 million this year through control operations, is widening its net by requesting information from 51 banks regarding safety deposit boxes. There were 4,500 investigations into apparently empty homes and premises with suspiciously high electricity consumption. Three out of every
four examined, however, were found to be occupied, without having been declared. Another 750 investigations centred on homes registered as principal residences which were second homes and therefore liable to a higher tax rate. Hacienda also carried out 1,700 ‘submerged economy’ operations, pinpointing tax irregularities in onethird of them.
Farmer injured A FARMER aged 68 was taken to hospital suffering burns and smoke inhalation after fighting a fire in Alcolea.
No parking A CAMPAIGN to legalise ‘No parking’ signs used by residents without authorisation is planned by the Treasury Council of Vera.
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