Hacienda's list of Malaga debtors is still related to the construction crisis

The trail of debt left by the bursting of the real estate bubble continues to top the list of the names in Malaga province who still owe tax ten years later to Hacienda, the Spanish tax office.

The latest list of debtors is practically identical to that of last year, with the Aifos construction group at the top. The head of this holding company alone has a debt of nearly 93.4m euros, and then there are the 37.7m owed by Promotores y Consultores Ziur and the 32 by Sun Farm (both subsidiaries). The founder of the development company, Jesús Ruiz Casado, owes 15.6 million euros in tax, and his wife, Teresa Maldonado Taillefer, owes 15.7 million.

At the end of last year, 3,869 people and companies nationally owed the tax authority over one million euros each, making a total of 14.1 billion. They include at least 146 companies based in Malaga, with debts of 708.2 million euros. This is the same number as a year previously, but the money they owe has gone up by 12.8 million.

Among the companies who owe Hacienda the most are developers and builders such as Evemarina (30.9m), Fink 2010 (26.1), Promociones Tres Aceras Málaga (15.5), Promociones Cuevas Sánchez (14.2), Benaltos Inversiones (14), Guadalmansa Administraciones (12) and Grupo Vera and its subsidiary Draba (10.7 and 9.1 respectively).

In the tourism sector, the biggest debtor is Europa Center, which used to run the Hotel Cervantes in Torremolinos, at 25.1m. Others are Hoteles Manilva (23.4), Hoteles Europeos (3.9), Unisumma (3.2) and Viajes Marbesol (4.2). The company which runs Tivoli World owes four million. Two of Marbella's municipal companies owe 13.9m between them, and other debtors include Milla Med (Charanga), Isofotón, Novasoft and Bazar San Juan.