2024-03-27 11:15:46
A new council session will begin this Wednesday in Cipolletti, where a project that generated discontent in several social sectors will be discussed: an ordinance that establishes a municipal tax on fuels. In rejection of this measure, the city’s taxi drivers will carry out a caravan at 8.30 from Rosawer Park to the municipality where the councilors will be meeting.
Cipolletti’s legislative body decided to advance the bill that establishes a municipal fuel tax – as Neuquén already did – and in tExpress treatment will reach the ordinary session set for this Wednesday. The initiative promoted by Mayor Rodrigo Buteler establishes a tax for the fuel load in the town that will be used to correct the removal of subsidies for public transportation.
Given this, the city’s taxi drivers called for a caravan that has Rosawer Park as its starting point, its destination will be the municipal building. This protest will be held starting at 8:30 with the aim of arriving with the caravan at 9 at the municipality.at which time the ordinary session of the Deliberative Council will begin.
The project falls within the municipality’s emergency declaration and is a rate that will be implemented for 24 months in order to “sustain” the public transportation service that is in the hands of Pehuenche.»
The increases for all fuels will be 4.5%. The ordinance already has the votes to approve the initiative because it has three seats of the six that make up the body. In case of parity, the president of the Council Karina Alvarez (JSRN) decides.
Other localities are analyzing implementing the municipal fuel tax
After the approval of the municipal fuel tax in Neuquén to supply theThe subsidies that were stopped being sent from the Nation for transportationin several locations in Río Negro and Neuquén, dialogues began to seek the generation of an ordinance that applies it in their municipalities.
Although Cipolletti was one of those who was most firm regarding this initiative, they also joined San Martín de los Andes, Zapala and Cutral Coas explained by the Undersecretary of Transportation of Neuquén, Mauro Espinoza to LU5.
In some the The money raised will be used to replace the subsidy that they do not receive from the Nation, in others it will be allocated to public works.
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