António Costa announced that it will introduce “soon” a proposal for the restructuring of the Organic Council of Lisbon, which will include the creation of municipal services to the area of urban hygiene.
The mayor also said that the Government will formally propose that municipalities start to have a share in the revenue from VAT and intends to relaunch the debate on the establishment of a tourism tax.
The mayor spoke at the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon held this Tuesday meeting, which took place in and appreciation of written information, which is periodically presented by the Mayor, in accordance with law. After doing a brief assessment of what was the town council activity in recent months, took Costa to anticipate “some of the heaviest tasks that the city will face next year.”
Although he admitted that there is still “some things to fix” with regard to the administrative reform of the city, such as the locations of some parishes, the assumption for these skills for the licensing and transfer of funds to these local bodies, António Costa noted that in essential to this process is completed.
Therefore, argued, “it is time to take a new step forward” with what he called the “restructuring of municipal services.” At this level, António Costa said that there will be “two fundamental changes”: a reinforcement of skills units of territorial intervention, which will have “brigades” to “respond faster and better” to the problems of “care and maintenance”, and the creation of municipal services to the area of urban hygiene.
For these services, the mayor said that this has been the solution adopted by several municipalities, adding that it allows “an easing of management “and the assignment of revenue collected to the area of urban hygiene. António Costa said he believes it is possible to move forward on this path “without any uneasiness,” adding he did not expect resistance from the unions.
Part of the speech was devoted to the socialist mayor has often referred to by both him as its vice president and councilor of Finance, breaks the structural revenue of the municipality. According to António Costa, later this year the camera will record a lower fiscal 2010 revenue at EUR 154 million. “The decline has been ongoing,” he said, noting that in four years the cumulative loss is EUR 392 million already.
The mayor assured that you want to Lisbon continues to be “the city in the metropolitan area Lisbon with the lowest rate of IMI and also the IRS. ” But in order to keep this factor of “attractiveness of establishing residence” in the county, without which “jeopardize fiscal sustainability of the municipality”, António Costa pointed out the need to find revenue “alternatives.”
One of them said, could be the involvement of municipalities in VAT revenue, an already known claim that promises now formally propose to the Government. Also, want to see relaunched the debate on the creation of a tourism tax, which he sees as a possible way to finance a new convention center in Lisbon.
The idea of this rate had been launched in 2010, but was poorly received by the tourism sector, as happened in other municipalities. At the time there was talk of charging tourists values between 20 cents and 1.9 euros per night on the town and a euro entry in the capital, was by air, river or rail.
António Costa announced yet you want to “transform” the conservation fee of sewers, which “will disappear”, a charge of civil protection, to fund the annual cost of € 24.2 million that has the Fire Brigade Regiment Lisbon. Reporters the mayor assured that here will not result an increase in the tax burden, unless for “producers of increased risk” as the airport and some industries.
Finally, the mayor noted that a tax on solid waste will be created through its empowerment of sanitation. According to him, the monthly value of this new rate may vary from 1.69 euros charged by Vila Franca de Gaia and 5.53 euros charged by Loures.
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