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The Spanish government will reduce of 10% the amount base of the harbour taxes
The ANESCO asks to wind down from 5.5% to 4% the fiscal share applicable to the tax basis of the tax occupation for the harbour activities
March 5, 2018
. The prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has announced friday who, specifying that the measure will be included in the financial law of this year, has emphasized the importance of the national ports through which he passes to 60% of the exports and 75% of the Spanish imports and that they appoint to a job 275 thousand people and they contribute to generate beyond 2% of the national Gross Domestic Product one.
The Prime Minister has announced that in the 2017 Spanish ports they have enlivened 545 million tons of goods (in the 2016 traffic it has been of 509 million tons), double figure regarding that recorded in 1992, and has evidenced that these 25 years is doubled also the number of passengers that is gone up by 15 to 34 million, of which more than nine million than crocieristi ones.
The announcement is received with favor from the ANESCO, the association of the Spanish harbour terminalisti, that it has emphasized as the measure, that is online with the proposal formulated from the same association, will have positive effects on the harbour field. However the ANESCO has asked that, with such measure, a review of the canons of concession of the assets of the harbour Federal property is put into effect, with a reduction of the amount that - second the association - would have an ulterior positive impact on the Spanish economy. The ANESCO has specified to already have proposed governmental agency Puertos of the Estado to fix to 4% the fiscal share applicable to the tax basis of the tax occupation for the harbour activities, share that currently is of 5.5%.
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. The prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has announced friday who, specifying that the measure will be included in the financial law of this year, has emphasized the importance of the national ports through which he passes to 60% of the exports and 75% of the Spanish imports and that they appoint to a job 275 thousand people and they contribute to generate beyond 2% of the national Gross Domestic Product one.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
