Plusvalía tax on villa

Calpe July 6 In 2018 we sold our villa in Calpe and paid all bills and moved on. At the time the Plusvalía tax had been stopped but would be started again! In November 2019 my husband was paying a bill at the Suma when they mentioned this tax so he paid up the amount they said. Before we moved we had enquired the amount we would have to pay and this was near about so we went ahead. A week ago we picked up from the bank some papers with a Suma bill intact one of which held an embargo on our account which the bank could not account for. So we went back to Suma and it was a Plusvalía bill for me plus nearly two hundred euros late payment fee. Even though we had had no knowledge it was due having paid in November we thought that was that. Now it seems joint ownership means two payments!!! So is it the property’s owners that are charged individually? Now we have found out the tax is Illegal, in fact in Moraira it is not changed at all. And elsewhere the Suma offices declare this to be a voluntary payment by the owners and therefore not illegal. We unfortunately were four months over the due time of two years we might possibly have fought to get it back. If you are selling please be aware and check for yourselves.

Margaret CARNEY

Dear Mrs Carney, we have passed you letter on to our legal advisors and a reply will appear shortly in out ‘Resdidents Advice Bureau’ pages in our Costa Living supplement.