The government’s refusal to deflate the income tax rate has allowed Spain to close the year 2024 with a record tax collection, close to €300 billion. This does not prevent the government from proposing new tax increases in 2025. Some have already come into effect on January 1. Others will do so in the coming months:– Corporate Tax: Multinational companies with a turnover of more than €750 million will pay…
Reconciling the support of center-right nationalist parties, such as the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) or Junts per Catalunya (the party of the fugitive Puigdemont), with that of extreme left parties (Podemos, Sumar…) was possible a year ago, to elevate Pedro Sánchez to the presidency of the Government despite having lost the elections. Spain has never had a weaker government, more willing to stay in power by making the necessary concessions…
Aurelio Medel (5 Días) | In Spain, Parliament remains trapped by the whims of minor parties that support Pedro Sánchez’s Government, putting him in the position of either adopting their clientelist interests or renouncing to govern. The political negotiation regarding the tax on banks and energy companies, sectors that have historically been attributed with the greatest capacity for influence in Spain, is a vivid portrait of the blackmail from these…
The tax on energy companies, which the Government created due to the recent inflation crisis and wanted to make permanent, will expire on December 31. This comes after the period for submitting amendments to the bill aimed at achieving that permanence has concluded. The Treasury did not gain the support of Junts – crucial for advancing the initiative. The elimination of the tax on electricity companies will result in a…
Yesterday, Wednesday 3 April, the window for filing online personal income tax returns for 2023 opened. The campaign will run until 1 July and 23,281,000 returns are expected to be filed, 1.2% more than last year. Of these, almost 63% – 14.6 million, 3% less – are expected to be entitled to a refund, for an estimated amount of €11.65 billion. On the other hand, the Treasury estimates that more…
The Instituto de Estudios Económicos (IEE) pointed out on Tuesday that the tax burden in Spain had reached historic highs in 2022, exceeding 42% of GDP and standing above the EU average (41.7%) for 2021 – the last year for which data are available. “The tax effort, i.e. the tax burden normalised according to income, is already 53% higher than the EU average”, warned the IEE President, Íñigo Fernández de…
Spain is amongst the countries with the least competitive tax system in the OECD. This is according to the new edition of the tax competitiveness ranking prepared by the Tax Foundation, in which Spain appears in 34th place out of a total of 38. This position, which represents a loss of two places compared to the 2021 edition and eight compared to 2020, leaves Spain ahead of only Ireland, Portugal,…
Despite the economic slowdown, the Spanish Treasury wants to achieve another record collection in 2023. This follows the one that will certainly be achieved in the current year, in which the collection is 27 billion euros more than expected due to inflation. The Treasury wants to achieve this after leaving a large part of middle-income earners (above 21,000 euros a year) out of its tax cut, which does not include…
Fernando González Urbaneja | The sequence of events is relevant to the outcome and has to do with the electoral confrontation. Behind and at the bottom of this debate or storm there is no doctrine or theory, there are no documents with well-founded proposals, it is just a matter of brushstrokes with ideological pretensions of little flight and quite a lot of trickery.The opposition party, with Núñez Feijóo at the…
J.P. Marín-Arrese | The Socialist-run regional governments in Spain face dire prospects in the coming elections next year. High inflation, low growth and rising unemployment weigh heavy on voters’ sentiments against the left-wing coalition governing Spain. So they resort to promising tax cuts as the best recipe to cushion their dwindling support. The Valencia Chairman, Mr Puig, has announced a cut in personal income tax, mirroring the national Opposition leader’s…