Table 5. Property Tax in the Municipality of Santa Cruz de Lorica: Annual Rates of Properties not Developed or Built upon and Differential Relative to the Benchmark Rate Annual Rate
Differential
(per mille)
(per mille)
a. Developable property not developed
22
11
b. Developable property not built upon
22
11
c. Developed property not built upon in a territorial area
16
17
Kind of building
Source: Tax Code of the Municipality of Santa Cruz de Lorica
5.2 Identifying Tax Expenditures in the Trade and Industry Tax The Tax Code in the municipality of Lorica sets out a series of tax expenditures for the Trade and Industry Tax, which will be classified into exemptions, reduced rates relative to the benchmark rate of seven per mille and reduced rates relative to the benchmark rate of 10 per mille. U
Exemptions:
There is only one exemption considered in this tax, which favors for a period of five years industrial, commercial and service companies which set up in the municipality, if and only if they provide at least fifteen new, full-time jobs from the moment they start operating, for people originally from the municipality, or who have lived there for the previous five years. To date only one company has been able to avail itself of this exemption. U
Reduced rates, relative to the benchmark rate of 7 per mille:
Current rates for industrial activities, and the differential relative to the benchmark rate of 7 per mille, are summed up Table 6.
Table 6. Tax on Industrial Activities in the Municipality of Santa Cruz de Lorica: Annual Rates and Differential Relative to the Benchmark Rate Code 101 102
Industrial activity
Current rate (per mille)
Manufacture and production of food and drink, manufacture 5 of footwear, clothes and other garments Manufacture of primary products of iron and steel, 6 manufacture of transport equipment Source: Tax Code of the Municipality of Santa Cruz de Lorica
Differential (per mille) 2 1