In March of this year, THE PYLON revealed that hundreds of contractors were complaining because the Mayor’s Office of La Jagua de Ibirico had not paid them their services provided from 2023. These commitments are part of a deficit of $7,890 million that the Municipality of La Jagua de Ibirico haswhich includes debts for employment benefits, service benefits and debts with Afinia.
Given the delay in payment, some contractors initiated conciliation and administrative processes before judges. “I am waiting a reasonable amount of time to file a process. We have not received reports. Some contractors have already initiated a process before administrative judges”said a contractor.
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EL PILÓN spoke with Silwin Torressecretary of Tax authorities of the municipality, who maintained that they established payment agreements, but that they are debts that they inherited from the last administration.
“At the end of the 2023 period there was a deficit of almost $7.89 billion. We have been paying according to the collection. These are commitments that the previous government should have paid, but they did not do so,” said the official.
Likewise, he assured that in these first 6 months paid severance pay and labor obligations that came from the previous period. “We made a deficit decree and a payment decree. The first thing we paid for was the working conditions and now we are making tax relief to improve collections, which are at rock bottom. With this tax collection we can pay,” he concluded.
As he knew THE PYLONabout 40 contractors They provided their services in 2023, but did not receive payment, apparently due to the deficit. In addition to the reduction in income, the municipality’s financial problems arose from the indiscriminate increase in its bureaucracy. This imbalance caused The Jagua of Ibirico will become a sixth-category municipality in 2023: they spend on operation 85% of your current incomewhen the norm allows a maximum of 70%.
The Ibirico Jagua has been going through a financial crisis since the departure of Prodeco in it 2020, which was aggravated by covid-19. According to what the former mayor said several months ago Ovelio Jimenez, The municipality stopped receiving around $20,000 million annually that it delivered Prodeco before your departure.
By Deivis Caro
