Benissa Residents Facing Huge Rates Increase
25 October 2006
Residents in Benissa are having to come to grips with a doubling in their rates.
 Last year, the average rates bill was in the region of 600€. Now, the town council has increased household rates. In some cases, the increase is more than 100% with some residents having received bills for 1300€
The increase is causing outrage in the quiet town to the north of the Costa Blanca. Many residents complain of poor local facilities citing poor or no street lighting, unsanitary rubbish collection, and a general poor condition of the area. The general feeling in the town is that the money collected simply is not being ploughed back into the town.
In some cases, residents, many of them British, are having to put their homes up for sale because they simply can’t cover the cost increase. Many of those affected are pensioners who have no extra income to cover the costs.
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