translated from Spanish: Morelia has raised 348 million pesos for property tax

Morelia, Michoacán.- In the first bimestre of the year the town hall of Morelia collected a total of 348 million 217 thousand 63 pesos for the property tax and other municipal contributions, which will be exercised in various areas, said Jorge Lino Téllez, director of the property morelia city council.
At a press conference, he said that the total number of taxpayer receipts who met the payment of the property tax on time was around 226 thousand 753, of which 13 thousand 251 entered the minimum quota modality, i.e. they were seniors or with disability.
Lino Téllez said that it is still accounting in number of taxpayers who do not yet pay their property tax, since a brief extension was given so that the citizens could catch up and avoid paying surcharges that could gradually become a debt Unsustainable.
With the total revenue figure in the first two months of the year, the Treasury said it exceeded their expectation last year of 325 million pesos, an increase of 9.4 percent.
On the other hand, the chief of the revenue said that on March 17th the raffled raffled of a car, two motorcycles, four flat screens and a refrigerator among the taxpayers who paid their property on time will be made in the main courtyard of Palacio Municipal.

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