| The objective of the aid is to facilitate, as far as possible , the fulfillment of his business obligations, the maintenance of the activity and the employment in this municipality | The mayor, Juan José Cánovas, has reported on the procedure on which the City of Totana has been working to attend the call for aid from the self-employed and companies of Totana that contribute to alleviating, in part, the crisis caused by COVID -19; and that they finally received full unanimous institutional support.The Plenary approved last Thursday, unanimously, in an extraordinary session, the joint proposal that included the measures suggested by the municipal groups - with the exception of Vox - on the more than a hundred measures to be developed in different areas of social life, political and economic of this municipality; as well as recording, for budgetary purposes, the balance of 300,000 euros provided in the Contingency Fund of the extended budget from 2019 to 2020.The corporations gave the green light, in this same initiative, to the process of scaling the call for aid to companies in order to facilitate, as far as possible, the fulfillment of their business obligations, the maintenance of the activity and the employment in this municipality.This line of subsidies will be channeled by virtue of some rules that regulate the granting of aid to companies that have been seriously affected by the damages caused by the suspension of their activity and the damages that the declaration of the state of alarm entailed.
, in some cases, aggravated by the complicated economic situation that some sectors prior to this crisis were already dragging.The aid will consist of a fixed amount of up to 1,000 euros for companies, individuals (self-employed) and legal entities (companies), with or without dependent workers, when the activity they carry out has been affected by the closure of establishments in the framework of the state of alarm decreed by the coronavirus.In addition, aid of up to 700 euros will be arbitrated in the case of companies, individuals or legal entities, with or without dependent workers, who have not been affected by the closure of establishments, as long as they have suffered a reduction in their turnover.
in the month prior to the application for this subsidy of at least 75%, in relation to the average carried out in the natural semester prior to the declaration of the state of alarm.When the natural or legal person does not register the 6 calendar months required to prove the reduction in income, the assessment will be carried out taking into account the period of activity.Likewise, aid of up to 1,000 euros will be granted to companies, individuals or legal entities in the potters and artisans sector, with or without dependent workers, who have not been affected by the closure of establishments, but given the special crisis conditions in the sector have voluntarily ceased their activity as a result and after the declaration of the state of alarm.Likewise, the aid of 1,000 and 700 euros mentioned above will be increased by up to another 300 euros in the case of having up to 9 workers - even-; and up to 700 euros in case of having from 10 to 49 workers -even-, as of March 1, 2020.The standard application form and the bases for obtaining the subsidies regulated in this call will be available on the municipal website www.totana.es in the coming days.
