Record year for the collection of 1.4 million euros in penalties for intrusive tourism and transport activities

Dec 17, 2024 | Current affairs, Featured, Interview, Portada, Post, Revista Lloseta, Thursday Daily Bulletin, Tradition


Record year for the collection of 1.4 million euros in penalties for tourism and transport offenders
Image A record year for the collection of 1.4 million euros in penalties for tourism and transport offences
Print Date 16 December 2024
The tax collection services of the Consell Insular de Eivissa collected a total of 1,611,893.46 euros in transport, tourism, town planning and fishing fines in 2024.

Throughout the year that is about to end, the Consell Insular de Eivissa has collected 1.611.893,46 sanctions of intrusism (adding tourism, transport, urbanism and fishing/hunting), compared to 1.105.520,11 euros in 2023, 989.173,36 euros in 2022 and 718.417,29 euros in 2021.

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Record year for the collection of 1.4 million euros in penalties for intrusive tourism and transport activities

The councillor for the Anti-Intrusion Service, Mariano Juan, expressed his satisfaction with the figures that demonstrate ‘the commitment we have to the fight against intrusion and the involvement of the departments involved, intrusion and treasury, which are doing such a good job in terms of processing files and collection’.

Thus, from 2019 to 2024, a total of 1,887,787.76 euros has been collected in transport fines; 36,262.38 euros in fishing fines, totalling 5,505,929.98 euros since 2019, an all-time high in the collection of fines for intrusions by the Consell Insular de Eivissa.

Juan pointed out that this year, 2024, the forecasts for collection for these concepts, which had been set at around 700,000 euros in tourism and 400,000 euros in transport, have been exceeded. The involvement of the departments of the Council and the Tax Agency in collecting the amount of the fines is fundamental and I would like to thank everyone for their involvement. Juan pointed out that sanctioning proceedings are a long administrative procedure, from the moment the proceedings begin with the proposed sanction until it is collected, ‘but in the last four years we have made it a priority to speed up and increase the pace of work to achieve figures such as these’.

In addition, throughout this 2024, the inspection service of the Consell d’Eivissa has opened 606 preliminary proceedings for illegal tourist rentals (281 will be opened in 2021), 91 sanctioning proceedings have been opened and 62 advertisements for illegal tourist rentals have been withdrawn from the platforms at the direct request of the Consell.

PRIVATE DETECTIVE ACTIVITY

As for the private detective service, during this summer, at the request of the local councils, they have infiltrated several illegal parties with the aim of reporting on possible irregularities so that the local police can act and carry out detailed reports.

The detectives were also of great help throughout this summer infiltrating as clients in operations against illegal transport. The detectives were also of great help this summer, infiltrating as clients in operations against illegal transport in Ibiza, with the collaboration of agents from the Guardia Civil’s USECICO unit.

These operations with detectives is an initiative that has been launched for the first time this summer and the good results obtained have allowed the Department of Transport to evaluate the possibility of putting the service out to tender for next season.

The dissuasive nature of this measure has been evident: a few days after the private detectives infiltrated the groups recruiting clients from the pirate taxi drivers, they warned the participants of the presence of detectives and generated such mistrust that they asked the illegal drivers to ‘be careful’, which led to a significant drop in illegal transport services.