Feraguathe association which represents the vast majority of irrigators of the General Basin Regulation System Guadalquivir“a “massive canyon-facing” tax plan for the two marshes proposed for 2025.
The reason is, as explained during a press conference in Cordoba the president of Feragua, José Manuel Cepedais that it is a “proposal for cannon so crazy that it seems like a hoax, a “fake”, as they say now, but it is not the case, it is real and represents a real joke for the farmers of the general regulation system of Guadalquivir, and we “We’re not going to tolerate it,” as he warned.
Thus, “the bill that the State wants to collect irrigators for these two reservoirs, amounts to 17 million, an exaggerated amount without any correlation with the volume of water they provide, which in the last five years has been on average 70 cubic hectometers”, while the cost per cubic meter returned to Guadalquivir irrigators in the canon proposal for 2025 amounts to 0.25 euros, an amount that Cepeda described as “sablazo», since it represents an amount “ten times greater” than that per cubic meter passed on to the General Regulation System fee.
“A joke in bad taste”
In this sense, the president of Feragua He described as a “bad taste joke” the fact that the amount of the tax had tripled in ten years, “while obviously the costs could not have increased in this proportion”. Cepeda then wondered “how to explain that the 2015 fee for La Breña II and Arenoso was 18.86 euros per hectare and that it is expected that next year’s fee, after a further increase of 45%, or 51.50 euros per cubic meter? The president of Feragua came to the conclusion that “this is something that has no possible explanation”.
Feragua, who presented his allegations on the proposed fees and awaits the response to these allegationsrejected in its arguments “the unjustified increase of the last decade and in particular that of last year”, and expressly requested “the non-impact of VAT and the costs of the La Breña II pumping station” . Thus, “of the 51.50 euros per hectare that they want us to pay, there are nine euros which are VAT and which are passed on to us illegally, and six euros from a pumping station which brings us no money. profit and which Therefore we are not willing to pay,” said the president of Andalusian irrigators.
