The City Council collects more than 100,000 euros in taxes thanks to a tax inspection.
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The Tías Town Council’s Treasury Department, headed by Councilor Tomás Silvera, has conducted a limited tax inspection of the municipality’s vacation homes. This action has allowed the tax status of numerous properties that were being taxed incorrectly to be regularized.
According to data submitted by the Canary Islands Government in September, a total of 1,585 vacation homes were operating in the municipality of Tías. However, of these homes, 1,117 were being treated as household waste, that is, as residential dwellings and not as classified or business activities.
As a result of this situation, the Tías City Council has generated 1,030 limited inspection files, which do not necessarily represent the total number of properties, as in some cases multiple files were created for the same property due to changes in ownership. Furthermore, the files were generated by owner, including all the vacation homes they own in a single file.
The Councilor for Economy and Finance, Tomás Silvera, affirms that the Tías City Council “has worked to correct a situation that generated a comparative grievance among taxpayers. Vacation homes that operate as an economic activity must pay taxes correctly, as do other businesses in the municipality.”
The amount settled after this inspection amounts to €101,852.17. This amount corresponds to the regularization of taxes that should have been paid in accordance with current regulations.
These homes are now correctly taxed in the 2025 tax collection registry. The inspection was carried out in accordance with regulations, allowing for retroactive collection of up to four years from the date they were put into operation.
In addition, the process included a period for objections in cases where the properties were no longer operating as vacation rentals or where the owners were unaware that the license was still active in the Canary Islands Government registry.
Silvera thanks the public employees of the Tías Town Hall’s Treasury Department “for their efforts in carrying out this work using their own resources, thus enabling better oversight of the municipality.” This work, he adds, “will contribute to making Tías a more fair municipality in terms of taxes, ensuring that each taxpayer pays their fair share.”
This is the second major inspection carried out by the Treasury Department. The first targeted energy, water, gas, and telecommunications supply companies, which were not correctly declaring gross income to settle the 1.5% tax at a time of rising consumer prices. In fact, €122,740 has been collected as a result of the inspection of the electricity companies.
Tomás Silvera also announced that his department has initiated the process of amending the property tax ordinance to bring it into compliance with the Housing Law.
