The Plenary of Xinzo provisionally approves the increase in the water tax

The Plenary of the City Council of Xinzo de Limia has provisionally approved the modification of Fiscal Ordinance No. 9, which regulates the tax for the home water supply. The agreement was adopted in the ordinary session on November 2, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense on November 6, 2026, in an announcement that opens thirty business days of public information so that interested parties may examine the file and submit claims.

The processing is detailed in the public exhibition announcement signed by the mayor, Amador Díaz Penín, and registered under official reference R. 2.630 in section IV of the provincial gazette, dedicated to local entities. This is the regulation that sets the municipal tax paid by households for the water service, meaning any modification directly impacts the bills received by the council’s residents.

The file is submitted for public exhibition in compliance with article 17.2 of Legislative Royal Decree 2/2004, of March 5, which approves the revised text of the Law regulating local finances. The announcement does not detail the new rates resulting from the modification in the body of the publication; these must be consulted in the file deposited in municipal offices.

Provisional approval and public exhibition

The plenary agreement is provisional. The City Council of Xinzo de Limia does not apply the modification immediately, but first opens a period of public participation regarding the complete ordinance file. The deadlines and conditions of the procedure are as follows:

• Provisional approval agreement adopted by the Plenary in the ordinary session on November 2, 2026.
• Object: Fiscal Ordinance No. 9, regulating the tax for home water supply.
• Public information period: thirty business days, counted from the day following the insertion of the announcement in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense.
• Place of consultation: municipal offices, where the file can be examined.
• Registration of allegations: claims must be submitted within the ordinary deadlines and channels for citizen service of the council.

The calculation of the period is carried out in business days, meaning Sundays and holidays are excluded, and begins counting the day after the publication of the announcement in the provincial gazette and not on the date of the plenary agreement’s approval, which was four days prior.

Automatic definitive approval if there are no allegations

The announcement expressly states that, if the public exhibition period expires without any allegations being presented, the agreement will be understood as definitively approved. This means that the modification of the water tax will be consolidated without the need for a new express pronouncement from the plenary of the City Council of Xinzo de Limia.

Only in the event that complaints or suggestions are registered during the public information period will it be necessary to expressly resolve them and, where appropriate, introduce changes to the text of the ordinance before its final approval. Administrative silence operates here as a simplification mechanism for the tax procedure provided for in the local treasury regulations.

Water supply and purification, the other ordinance of the same plenary session

The session of November 2, 2026, did not only modify the water tax. The same plenary session provisionally approved the update of another fiscal ordinance of the water cycle, also submitted to public information for the same period of thirty business days:

• Fiscal Ordinance No. 7: tax for the water supply network service and for the provision of the wastewater treatment and purification service, published with reference R. 2.631.
• Fiscal Ordinance No. 9: tax for the home supply of water, with reference R. 2.630.

Both were approved by the same body, in the same ordinary session of November 2, 2026, and both bear the signature of councilor Amador Díaz Penín and are subject to the public information process provided for in the Law regulating local treasuries. The temporal coincidence allows for a joint review of the two taxes for the municipal water service during the thirty business days of exhibition.

Impact on the bill and municipal management

The modification of Fiscal Ordinance No. 9 directly affects households subscribed to the municipal water service, as the tax is applied to home supply, regardless of use based on the contractual modality. The announcement does not anticipate the amount of the increase nor the update formula applied, data that can only be verified by examining the file during the claims period.

For the readers of Xinzo de Limia, the deadline is relevant for two reasons: it determines when the new tariff will come into force and offers a window of thirty business days to consult the complete document. Once this period has elapsed without objections, the new water tax, together with that for supply and purification, will be considered definitively approved and will be integrated into the bill paid by the residents of the municipality.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense, November 6, 2026, section IV. Local Entities (official reference: R. 2.630).