Estepona – Unregistered Properties to Be Taxed

Owners of properties tucked away in the Estepona countryside are to start paying the IBI tax. The council is drawing up a list of houses; many of them built illegally, in rural areas and is to send the owners tax demands. So far, the local authority has identified 485 properties, of which only 87 are registered for IBI, and has inspected the area between the Camino de Cuesta de Ronda and Camino de las Carmelitas, from the cemetery westwards, and from the eastern side of the industrial estate to the Guadalobón. The inspections of rural areas will continue throughout this year, and the council expects to raise at least 700,000 euros a year from people who were previously not meeting their IBI tax obligations.