PSOE Marbella y San Pedro

The PSOE, through councilor Diego Lara, plans to take the next plenary a motion to require the Council to urge the Government of the nation to reduce VAT to 4 per cent for economic activities framed in the tourism sector, measure that Congressman Miguel Angel Heredia Malaga has not submitted as a draft law in Congress, and has also claimed the Socialist Group of the Association of Municipalities.

At the same time, and in order to promote tourism and business support sector, the PSOE will be asked to urge the Government to keep the European Senior Tourism program and to maintain funding for the Plan Qualifica of the Costa del Sol , received during the last legislature Zapatero around 100 million euros.

The councilman said that tourism "is the activity that supports almost all economic of our town, so that any change in institutional policies applied to that sector, will always have a significant impact on which is our main source of income" .

Lara said that the Popular Party included in its program for the general elections, as proposed star in tourism, what became known as super-reduced VAT, that is, the reduced VAT by half-sector enterprises, from the current 8% to 4%. However, according to the declarations of the newly appointed Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, José Manuel Soria, the Popular Party, once attained power, has no intention of applying this measure, "in breach of the promise of campaign."

In addition to this announcement, "which is particularly harmful to our city," the councilor of the Municipal Group Socialist includes other cutting measures, as is to suppress the Lord Tourism program in Europe, which bonificaba selling travel for seniors of 55 years living in Europe to which it facilitated the option to spend your holiday in Marbella. "Only with the beginning of this Plan had been achieved the arrival of 45,000 visitors and nearly 400,000 overnight stays in our province, which will be lost in just over a month's People's Party government," he says.

Finally, the mayor said that the measures taken by the Popular Party, "as opposed to investment and incentives for the tourism industry has sown uncertainty among entrepreneurs and professionals in reference to the continuity of projects that are being so important to Marbella and San Pedro Alcántara as framed in the Qualifica Plan, whereby, with investment of 1.8 million have been recovered 7,000 square meters of terraces in the Marina, and the second phase is already underway Accessible Beaches with the project, in which our coast is included. "