The Town Hall in Estepona now has some breathing space, after the regional government has authorised an advance payment of 740,000 € from the municipality’s share in regional taxes.
It means the Town Hall will be able to pay the municipal staff’s wages for the month of March.
It’s the third advance Estepona has received from the Junta de Andalucía in a little more than a year. Others have been authorised for Bailén, Jaén, and El Coronil, Sevilla.
Estepona’s tax councillor, Carmen Ocaña, told Diario Sur after hearing the news on Tuesday, ‘We didn’t expect it this month. It’s like manna from heaven’. She said, that apart from the March wages, the money will also go towards the millions the Town Hall owes to staff in supplementary payments and suppliers.
The paper notes that the Town Hall’s needs around 3.5 million € every month to pay its 1,300 workers. Most of it is understood to come from local taxes.
