The Marbella City Council has an outstanding debt of 133 million euros with Social Security and the Tax Agency, according to Diario Sur. The mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, attributes the reduction to a 40-year deferral approved in 2011.
The Marbella City Council still has just over 130 million euros pending payment to the General State Administration. Specifically, the debt amounts to 133 million, divided between 109 million with Social Security and 24 million with the Tax Agency, according to data presented by the mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, during the State of the City Debate held last Monday, as reported by Diario Sur.
The current figure is the result of years of negotiation and adjustments. The debt with Social Security has been reduced from the 189 million initial to the current 109, while the amount owed to the Tax Agency has decreased from 88 million to 24. The origin of this liability dates back to the management period of the Independent Liberal Group (GIL) and the judicial rulings arising from the urban planning mismanagement of those years.
Muñoz detailed in her speech the difficulties the corporation faced between 2007 and 2011, when the central government rejected any write-off or extraordinary deferral of the inherited debt.
“They told me to raise taxes, that they weren’t going to defer the debt, that they weren’t going to give me a write-off, that if it was a debt that the residents of Marbella had incurred by voting for the GIL, ‘that’s their problem’”
The change in scenario came at the end of 2011, when the inclusion of a guaranteed 40-year deferral plan in the State General Budget Law allowed the City Council to maintain public services without suffocating the municipal economy. “The deferral of the debt with the State allowed us to live and breathe,” summarised the mayor.
In addition to the state debt, Marbella has 50 million owed to the Junta de Andalucía, a figure that has been reduced from the initial 106 million, and is addressing nearly 80 million linked to the Management Fund to pay firm sentences arising from old urban agreements from the GIL period.
The mayor also reviewed the closed fronts. With BBVA, the compound interest was eliminated, and the debt was reduced from 126 to 60 million, with a write-off of 10; with Unicaja, the 10 million pending was cancelled; the debt owed to the Provincial Collection Board (23 million) was settled, and the debt with suppliers, which exceeded 20 million, was cleared. “But we even negotiated with the Professional Football League because we had the municipal cemetery seized,” Muñoz pointed out to illustrate the situation in 2007.
The current municipal budget amounts to 448 million euros, 2.4 times that of 2007 and 115 million more than that of 2023.
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