The president of the Community says it will cut 99 percent of donations tax and requires Rodríguez Zapatero tax breaks for small and medium enterprises invest in R + D + i
Notable among the main objectives for next year's growth of investment in public works, with 145 new miles of highways and the creation for it to 2,000 jobs
Completed the construction of the new hospitals in Cartagena, Mar Menor and the Arrixaca Maternal and Child with an investment of more than 300 million euros, with a total 1,428 hospital beds
The President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, today announced new tax cuts over the next year "to benefit businesses and families most affected by the economic crisis" during the traditional balance of the year made the media .
The Chief Executive explained that the Executive regional Murcia will eliminate 99 percent of the donations tax as was done with the inheritance, and recommended the president of the central government to make tax cuts for small and medium enterprises to invest in I + D + i, training, and internationalization as well as a decrease in the level of taxation of Spanish companies, "as has been done in Portugal."
Valcarcel said, "research, development and innovation in Murcia grow faster than the rest of Spain, so he demanded that" will increase deductions for Spanish companies in this area. "
Valcárcel, in its year-end balance, said: "Murcia has done their homework and we have been rigorous, which encourages us to face adversity with muscle and strength."
Announced that the budget execution year to exceed 95 percent, and stressed that "the regional government was the first to get to work with the definition of plans and actions, while the Socialist government was bent on denying the evidence."
"We are a healthy region and which have greater borrowing capacity, described as rigorous in spending," the president for whom "the reality is that it is a difficult and complex" but "we have the experience to excel," he said.
To Valcárcel "unemployment is the main concern", and "there is a letter to the Magi, or a joke, is a very serious thing," he said, and recalled that the PP government took a region with 27 percent of unemployed and came to the work stoppage. "
He said, "In 2008 we laid the foundation to support this situation", noting, inter alia, the implementation of actions as the Plan of outplacement assistance for workers affected.
He also noted the adoption in March Economic Revitalization Plan, the Industrial Plan, the austerity measures implemented by the Executive Murcia, or FinanciaPyme Plan to help small and medium enterprises and workers.
FinaciaPyme about this plan, special emphasis was Valcárcel notes that "is proving successful small and medium businesses are expressing their satisfaction at seeing that there is a real tool at your service."
"We are on track in there to explore and move forward" and "is what we have done and what we are doing," he added.
The Executive will allocate 10 million euros a day to social policies
In the same vein, as already announced in the beginning of this term, is also the regional government's commitment to social policies whose social spending, which "will not be eroded in the year 2009" and said that next year Murcia the Executive allocated 10 million euros a day to social policies, and that "health education and social services as a whole will grow by 6 percent."
For the year that starts Valcarcel said, also increased by 27 per cent of investment in public works "with the construction of 147 kilometers of new highways that will create 2000 jobs."
This means, he said, an example that "we respond to difficult situations muscles."
In addition, another important milestone to note for next year is to conclude the works of new hospitals in Cartagena, Mar Menor, and the Maternal and Child Arrixaca, which involves an investment of more than 300 million euros, with 1,428 hospital beds and only those of Cartagena and Mar Menor is attending a combined population of 340,000 people.
Work on the new International Airport in the Region of Murcia "going at a good pace, as they have not been delays by the crisis."
Valcárcel said the intention of further strengthening the network of schools in the region to adapt to the needs of schooling, which, according Valcárcel, in 2009, "will improve and strengthen the facilities throughout the region with the construction of new facilities. "
He also stressed, in reference to education, the focus on universities and the introduction in the infant and primary cycles of bilingualism, and recalled that 2009 "will bring very good news with the signing of the new Compact for Education, supported as always by consensus of all educational stakeholders. "
In reference to water policy, said that "we have achieved a great achievement to convince the program Zapatero WATER was not the solution, there are now a door can be opened and that means talking about transfers, ensuring the Tajo-Segura Ebro and continue talking, "he said.
Regional government's achievements in 2008
More than 1,000 million for the contingency plan to stimulate the economy and Job Consolidation
770 million euros for the Industrial Plan for the Region of Murcia
Creation of 232 new social economy enterprises
More than 100 million annual funding for SMEs through FinanciaPyme plan
Work begins International Airport Region
Completion of motorway-Country Alhama and Totana, Mazarron Cartagena
Reduction of a quarter point in the regional section of the income tax for all Murcia
New tax cuts in tax grants
43,000 workers acquire training
12,000 contracts become permanent temporary
Extra EUR 150 million for public universities
Over 100 hectometres
of purified water per year, representing 25 percent of national total
Has increased tenfold the production of photovoltaic solar energy, which produces enough electricity to supply 121,600 homes
28.842
Murcia have been evaluated for the performance of the Law Unit
This opens the Roman Theatre of Cartagena
International tourism registered the highest increase in Spain, with 712,000 tourists, 78,000 more than in 2007
Objectives for 2009
Increase of 27 percent of investment in public works to address the crisis
More than 145 new miles of highways
Completion of Zeneta-San Javier motorway
Home of three new freeways: Caravaca-Lorca, Jumilla-Venta del Olivo-Caravaca and Yecla-Santomera
Completion of construction of the Hospitals of Cartagena, Mar Menor and the Maternal and Child Arrixaca
Murciano Bio-Health Research Institute, New Center and Hospital Neurorehabilitation Oncohematology
More than 124 million in R + D + I
EUR 52 million to train 50,000 workers
455 million euros for the agricultural sector
Increase of over 17 percent of Local Economic Cooperation budget for municipalities
More than ten million euros a day for action on social policies
14 new schools in 12 municipalities
Implementation of bilingualism in primary education in schools.
A New Compact for Education
Branding 'Murcia'
Addition of 305 new agents to the Special Security Units
Source: CARM