For years, the Girona municipality of La Bisbal d’Empordà It appears as one of the most delinquent in the statistics of Average Payment Terms to suppliers (PMP) of the Ministry of Finance. It is one of the nine municipalities in Spain that takes the longest to pay the invoices to its suppliers with an average of 1,237.23 days, with data from the month of September.
However, the mayor of the municipality, Enric Marquès, denies that this is the case and explains that the figure is derived from a “bad accounting adjustment with the company Agbar”. Marquès details that due to a judicial disputehe started in 2010 with the company that supplies water in the municipality (Sorea, later absorbed by Agbar) due to disagreements in the contract and the price of the water service, the City Council of La Bisbal “had a whole series of settlements pending accounting” .
Throughout these years, the service bills have been entering the City Council of La Bisbal and being accounted for as debt despite being paid. “This has made that exaggerated figure of delay in payment appear. When in reality we are paying the bills with an average of between 15 and 30 days after their entry, like any other city council & rdquor ;, adds the mayor.
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In fall last year, to resolve the imbalance, the city council entered the payments of these bills into the system. This update, according to municipal sources, will allow La Bisbal not to stand out negatively in the next Treasury statistics because it is already regularized. The statistics of the Treasury attribute to La Bisbal an outstanding debt to suppliers that exceeds 4.3 million euros and that the mayor assures that it derives from the same circumstance.
Together with La Bisbal d’Empordà, the other Girona municipalities that top the list of delinquent payments in the province due to their long payment terms are those of Besalu (with an average supplier payment period of 237.61 days and a debt of 324,746 euros) and Siurana (104.36 days of average term and an amount of 110,420 euros). They are followed by the municipalities of Arbúcies (89.63 days and 1.3 million euros of debt) and Les Planes d’Hostoles (84.39 days and 248,052 euros).