The waste rate is already a reality in Valencia. The plenary session of the municipal council gave the green light this Tuesday to the modification of the tax ordinances for 2025, which include the “imposition” of the new tax on the collection and transport of waste. This tax, which will cost Valencians 47 million euros, will come into force on January 1 and could reach 272.8 euros per year.
The tax base of the new rate will be determined based on the consumption of cubic meters of wateras provided for in the tax ordinance. Thus, private residences located in the section A and section Bwith a consumption of up to 65 m3, They will pay 39.14 euros per year. Half of Valencia’s houses are in this section.
Properties in section C, from 65.01 to 90 m3, will pay 122.18 euros, while those in section D, from 90.01 m3 to 195 m3, will pay 141.16 euros per year. Likewise, in section E, from 195 m3 to 260 m3, the tax will be 259.78 euros per year and, finally, in section F, with more than 260 m3 of water consumption, the rate will increase to 272 .83 euros per year.
To this garbage tax, we must add the so-called Tamer tax, the tax derived from the treatment and disposal of waste, which will increase by 23% by 2025.
“Sánchez’s big boss”
During the plenary session, Treasury Advisor María José Ferrer San Segundo accused Pedro Sánchez and his government partners of drafting “the worst law ever developed in Spain.” “This indignation comes from Sánchez, the PSOE and Compromís. The European directive does not impose anything,” he added.
However, the Treasury Department of the Consistory of Valencia has implemented a series of tax advantages so that the imposition of the rate does not lead to a deficit. Bonuses considered include a 30% reduction for large families; 30% reduction for the usual residence of families with limited resources; bonus of 10 euros for users who use ecoparks; bonus of 50 euros for economic activities that use municipal paper and cardboard collection systems “door-to-door”.
The two opposition groups, Compromís and PSPV-PSOE rejected the new garbage tariffthe modifications to the Tax on constructions, installations and works (ICIO) and abstained from the rest of the points related to these ordinances. Thus, the socialist councilor Borja Sanjuán accused Maria José Català’s team of establishing “a bad model, by linking the collection of the fee to water consumption”.
The PSPV spokesperson explained that the cost of the new tax will be higher than 40 euros per year for families and declared in this regard that the Town Hall reports calculate that for a standard four-member will reach 140 euros per yearin addition to highlighting that this is combined with the 23% increase in the Metropolitan Tamer for waste treatment.
Sanjuán also defended that those who pollute the most pay more and thus considered the amendments as “a madness” which Ferrer San Segundo spoke about, given that the rate must be “differentiated” to “include a green criterion”, a model that Compromís also advocated.
Likewise, Sergi Campillo, of the Compromís Group, declared in plenary that “This tax is purely aimed at generating revenue and goes against environmental goals.”. A family that properly sorts waste into five bins will pay the same price as another family that sorts only one bin and does not sort the waste. Because it will consume the same water. »
“Tax scam”
During the plenary session, San Segundo also highlighted the maintenance for next year of the 20% reduction in the IBI “which benefits all families” and represents for them “70 million euros in savings “, as well as inheritance capital gains tax continues with 95% bonus%. Regarding the planned increase from 3% to 4% of the Tax on Constructions, Installations and Works (ICIO), San Segundo recalled that “it is only billed when the work is completed.”
“Do not demonize the real estate sector,” said the head of municipal accounts, in her response to councilor Eva Coscollà, of the Compromís Group, who had previously indicated that “the increase of 6.5 million in the collection of said tax will increase the price of works and the price of housing ”. Ferrer San Segundo reported a series of municipalities that have established the ICIO payment at 4% “such as Barcelona, Paterna, Alboraya and Cullera”.
The two opposition groups described the tax reduction mentioned by the government team in plenary session as a “tax scam” and stressed that those who have the most resources are those who pay the least and those who have the fewer are those who pay the least who pay the most. In this sense, Borja Sanjuán affirmed that Valencian families will have to pay 420 euros more per year in taxes with Catalá.
From Compromís, Eva Coscollà regretted that the Catalan government speaks of “harmonization when it increases taxes”. “The Town Hall is limited in its spending, the accounts do not balance, it needs more income and it is trying to balance the budget with hammer blows,” concluded the mayor, who described it as “bad” budget execution.
