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The coordinator of IU-Greens in Cieza requires channels for citizens to claim back the tax on fuel without invoices.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) recently ruled that 'health centime-the fuel tax that applied some regions and whose income is used to finance health-contrary to Community legislation.

The judges said "no need to limit the temporal effects of this judgment, as the Spanish government and the autonomous communities that applied did not act in good faith to keep the tax in place for over ten years."

This means that the way is opened for those affected to claim back the € 13,000 million illegally collected between 2002 and 2011, according to estimates by the Spanish authorities.

However, apart from employers and individuals retain invoices will not be easy repayment of the amounts illegally collected by the mechanism imposed by the Rajoy government to carry it out.

Through a press release, the coordinator of IU-Greens in Cieza, Francisco Saorin, recalled that since IU has always been viewed with suspicion this tax because, in his view, as important and necessary as the health service should funded and sufficiently transparent.

The coordinator ciezanos ecosocialistas believes that the government should arbitrate channels for citizens to reclaim government repayment of the amounts for years have paid for the so-called 'health cent', now declared illegal by the Court European Union (EU).

Saorín believes the appeal to Article 66 of the General Tax Law, which sets in four years the deadline for requesting a refund of income tax-benefit undue "few people", especially the higher purchasing power, while "most of ordinary mortals "can not claim the payment of these amounts by not having receipts or invoices that prove.

To Saorín because "this money has been collected in an illegal manner," at least in its Return, in regard to the amount paid by the councils themselves, which have a social purpose such as to generate employment plans municipalities.

And is that IU-Greens Cieza, may be an important money back, in regard to ciezano session, taking into account that can be claimed to four years.

In regard to Cieza, Saorín asked the mayor to "require" the return of the amount paid by the city and reinvest in making urban gardens, which represent "a very low cost and generate 15 to 20 jobs and food supply to 30 or 40 families. "

"A council with an agile, effective and efficient accounting should not have much trouble retrieving this misnamed 'health cent,'" he concluded.

Source: IU-verdes Cieza