Seville, (EFE).- The municipalities of the Andalusian capitals have kept the Real Estate Tax (IBI) frozen during this legislature, which accounts for one in two euros of tax revenue received by all Andalusian local entities, and The energy self-consumption facilities have made a tax award with IBI discounts.
In addition, Andalusian councils generally apply IBI discounts for economic activities of public utility. And to officially protected housing, among others.
The municipalities of Seville, Cádiz, Jaén, Huelva and Almería are those with the highest percentage of bonus, 50%, for energy self-consumption installations in homes. Although the number of tax periods in which this measure is applied varies.
The Cádiz City Council, governed by Adelante, has kept the IBI frozen since at least 2018 and in 2021. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it also froze the rest of the municipal taxes.
General reduction of the IBI
In addition, since January 1, 2020, Cádiz has a tax exemption of 50% of the IBI in force for homes or premises that install technologies that allow the use of renewable energy for self-consumption. For a period of four tax periods and the amount of the bonus may not exceed 300 euros.
In Granada, for the first time in the history of democracy, the socialist City Council has approved a general reduction of 2% in the IBI for 2023. Some 230,000 properties benefit from it. And that supposes a saving for the residents of about two million euros, as detailed to EFE by the Councilor for the Treasury, José Antonio Huertas.
Among the bonuses, both self-consumption energy facilities and subsidized housing are included, the mayor has indicated.
In Seville, in the last four years of the socialist mandate, the city council has not updated the IBI rates and the only thing it has touched are the bonuses for companies in the free zone of the port, which have risen to 50%.
It also has 50% discounts for residential properties. In which solar energy harnessing systems are installed. In the three tax periods following its installation. And 95% in properties where employment promotion activities declared of public utility are carried out.
various bonuses
In the Huelva capital, the IBI, like the rest of the municipal taxes, has been frozen since 2016, the first year of the socialist mandate in the Huelva City Council, which this year has extended the 95% bonus, from which properties destined for to the development of economic activities declared of special interest or municipal utility.
The city council of Malaga, governed by the PP, has kept the IBI frozen by not updating it with the rise in the CPI. And the bonus for installing solar panels is 15% during the three tax periods following completion of the installation.
Also the city council of Córdoba, in the hands of the PP, has kept the urban IBI frozen for the last four years. Although the rustic IBI has decreased by 15.5% during this same period. In which bonuses of up to 90% have been contemplated for large families based on income.
In Almería, the city council has kept the IBI “stable”, according to municipal sources, during the last four years of its mandate. And self-consumption energy installations and VPOs have a 50% bonus.
During the last four years of the mandate of the PSOE and Ciudadanos in the Jaén City Council, there has only been one increase in the IBI in 2019, of 0.05% due to the imposition of the Ministry of Finance, which forced it to execute the increases that “had always justified the PP and that it never carried out”, according to the Councilor for Finance of the Jaén City Council, María Orozco.
municipal taxation
With data from the year 2020, the total tax collection of Andalusian local entities amounted to 4,916 million. And, within direct taxes, the IBI is the one that reports the highest income, with almost 2,500 million.
Direct taxes are the main source of tax revenue for local entities (73%). Followed by fees and other income (23%). And indirect taxes (4%). According to data collected in a report from the Andalusian employers’ association CEA on the incidence of local taxation in business activity based on data from the Ministry of Finance.
Income from fees for the provision of basic public services (such as water supply or garbage collection) amount to almost 500 million. Followed by special contributions, with 278.2 million. And the use or special use of the public domain (such as the fee for parking vehicles or the fee for the occupation of public roads with nightstands), with almost 200 million. EFE