After weeks and weeks of tug-of-war on the part of the different public administrations, all to enforce the law against the illegal excursion sales posts, the Provincial Coastal Service of the State Government has taken the first step, sending the last Thursday inspectors who would have drawn up a report at one of the kiosks and sent a report to the Canarian Agency for the Protection of the Natural Environment.
As DIARIO DE AVISOS revealed weeks ago, since June these businesses have proliferated on public land, which do not have the license required by the Government of the Canary Islands and which do August with billings of up to 3,000 euros a day without paying taxes or the rent of the premises, contrary to what the legal ones do, who would have lost between 50% and 90% of their billing.
In order to make cash, they do not need another element than tourist walks, occupying, in this way, a land that corresponds to the whole of the citizenry, profiting from it. As a result of the complaint in this newspaper, the Provincial Coastal Service would have drawn up the minutes and carried out the file, in addition to requiring the Arona City Council to document the measures adopted by the municipal authorities, mainly the Local Police, against these businesses , which today would be around eight or nine between Arona and Adeje.
However, the association that includes the legal ones (Adeturi, of which about twenty of them are part), denounces that they have been dealing with this problem for months and that they feel “helpless when they verify that there are laws, but there is no one in the Canary Islands who make them comply, which generates enormous legal uncertainty for us, who pay taxes, pay taxes, pay the rent for the premises and the payroll, as appropriate. The Administrations only pass the ball to each other”.
The illegal kiosks would be playing cat and mouse by changing locations and trying to evade the law, going from municipal land to coastal territory and vice versa.
For its part, the Arona City Council reported yesterday that it is working so that, in the coming days, illegal kiosks comply with the legislation, always within the framework allowed by the ordinance.
