Totana farmers whose crops and farms have been affected by floods, hail, fires and other disasters and may request aid and exemption from certain taxes, ICO preferential loans, advances and other measures to support employment and social security.
The Gazette (BOE) on Thursday published the law recently passed by the Council of Ministers established a package of urgent measures to compensate for losses resulting from these adversities in agricultural production and aid for personal injury and damage that affected to holders of agricultural holdings and collective industrial, commercial or tourist.
Regarding tax benefits for those affected, the text includes the fee waiver of property taxes that affect agricultural and forestry holdings, housing, industrial, tourist and commercial farms or workplaces damaged as a direct result of claims.
Been granted to a reduction in the business tax for the year of 2012 to the industries of every kind, and professional establishments affected.
The Government will also implement an exemption fee rate of irrigation water use and regulation canon.
Measures of labor and social security exemptions for certain agricultural cooperatives advances loans linked support for improvement and modernization of agricultural structures and performances of forest and environmental restoration are other support measures.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Foto: archivo Totana.com