In recent years, an invariable trend has been maintained where Catalan taxpayers have been paying 45% of the entire heritage tax that was paid in Spain in the year 2020, on the other hand in Madrid, citizens susceptible to paying this type of tax were saved just over 990 million euros in the year 2020, this thanks to the regional government bonuses by 100%.
According to data published by the Tax Agency, in 2020, 1,203.7 million euros were entered as the Heritage Tax, the community that most raised, just over 540 million, meaning this that 45 out of every 100 euros entered by the making public leaving the taxpayers of this community. For their part, the citizens of Madrid did not pay this tax as they were bonded.
The statistics obtained were quite similar to those of previous years, in the period of 2014 to 2019 the Catalans also paid 45% of the entire tax, in this period they paid just over 2.9 billion euros, in a total collection of about 6.4 billion euros in those years, in those same years, the residents of Madrid saved approximately 5.2 billion euros thanks to the bonus.
Catalans continue to pay 45% of the entire Estate Tax of Spain
The Spanish legislation has forced the declarants of Madrid with a heritage of more than two million to present a statement of assets even though they do not pay for being bonus, but because of this you can know how much money the Madrid taxpayers have been saved which usually handle a higher quota.
In Madrid, taxpayers with more than two million were more than 19,500 people, about 2.2% more than in 2021, on the other hand in Catalonia the number of residents with a heritage greater than 2 million were more than 80 thousand, 3%, doing this that the declared assets are greater than in Madrid, in addition to Catalonia the obligation to present the statement in much more strict than in other communities.
The Heritage Tax is also one of the taxes that the expert committee for the reform of the fiscal system proposed that it be harmonized, since there are some academics that confirm that there are leaks of taxpayers of communities where the property tax is paid while in others such as Madrid they are 100%bonus.