Logroño, (EFE).- The PP candidate for the Presidency of the Government of La Rioja, Gonzalo Capellán, has proposed this Tuesday to apply a deduction of 750 euros per year in Personal Income Tax (IRPF) at 20,000 mortgages signed from January 1, 2013, which would mean an investment of 15 million euros.
Capellán has made these statements in an informative conference, in which he has detailed that this measure responds to the “increase in monthly mortgage payments, with average increases in rates that are close to 200 euros in La Rioja, which adds to the fact that more than 42 percent of families have difficulties making ends meet”.
“Our model is not to continue collecting from La Riojans, who have quite a tax and vital burden in their day to day, but to help them have economic availability and that families have measures like this”, he has had an impact.
Another proposal that has been announced is the creation of a Chair of Biodiversity, Landscape and Water Resources together with the University of La Rioja (UR) to “know and take action regarding the varied natural heritage and ecosystems of great value” of this autonomous community.
“We have research groups in different fields that are leading nationally and internationally, and the knowledge they generate can help the Administration to make professional and technically competent decisions,” he specified.
This Chair, he continued, would have three lines: biodiversity as heritage; the landscape, since the health of the natural environment is essential; and water resources, since water has become a problem due to its scarcity at certain times, such as now, for which reason its optimization, rational use, avoid losses and improvements in infrastructures must be sought”.
“We find ourselves in a framework of uncertainties generated by climate change, and we must seek effective measures to alleviate them and adapt to living in the medium and long term, since it will affect our agriculture,” he stressed.
Capellán has stressed that in La Rioja there are “technological companies that solve problems of use of water resources throughout the world.”
“We are close to companies that provide support throughout the world for the management of water resources at the agricultural level, and we are going to help each other through this Chair, because our will is to bring together the experts that we already have and adjust the necessary policies, such as intelligent irrigation for maximum use”, he highlighted.
The PP entry proposes to deduct 750 euros from personal income tax on 20,000 mortgages signed in La Rioja since 2013, it was first published in EFE Noticias.