THE AIReF (Independent Tax Accountability Authority) made public the individual project reports and the basic lines of the respective projects of Budgets For 2025. In them they ensure that the Andalusia of Juanma Moreno will be the autonomous community most compliant with tax rules end of 2024 throughout Spain.
The independent authority indicates, for all communities, that the current exercise will end with a deviation from spending limit fixed in the 2.6%. Thus, in each of the published reports (except the one referring to the Valencian Communitywhose project Budgets has not yet been submitted), it is expected that this discrepancy will be 8.2% on averagealmost six points above the benchmark.
In the case of AndalusiaTHE AIREF predicts that the growth in calculable expenditure for the purposes of the expenditure rule will be of the order of 4.7%, above the benchmark of 2.6%. Only for the Community of Madrid THE AIREF forecasts growth in the spending rule lower than that of Andalusia (4.5%), but also above the reference.
The forecasts of AIREF on the increase in expenses exceeds 10% in the case of Asturias (11.1%), Balearic Islands (13.1%), Cantabria (10.5%) and Galicia (10.2%). Communities that come close to this figure are Canary Islands (9.5%), Murcia (9%), Navarre (9.5%) and La Rioja (9.3%).
The rest of the communities continue to have a DETOUR about the more-than-expense rule Andalusiaaccording to reports published by the AIREF. In this sense, the independent authority provides Aragon spending growth of 6.6%, 6.8% for Catalonia7.8% for Extremaduraor 6.4% for Castile and León.
For Castile La Manchathe forecast made by the AIREF The spending rule in 2024 is that it will increase by 5.7% and by 5.8% for the The Basque Country. THE Minister of Economy, Finance and European Funds, Carolina España, stressed that these forecasts “demonstrate two things. The first is that Andalusia is committed to financial sustainability and continues to be the community most respectful of budgetary rules. And the second, that it is urgent to undertake the reform of the regional financing system.
In this sense, the advisor said that “the AIReF reports show that the expenses of the autonomous communities cannot be contained nor, even less, reduced, with the resources we currently have.” Spain explained that the structural expenses of communities have increased exponentially, “while the resources we have remain the same. I remember that Andalusia receives every year 1.5 billion euros less than the average community due to a financing system that is detrimental to our community.
“It is not a question of increasing taxes and placing the responsibility for financing public services on the shoulders of citizens, but of ensuring that the distribution of resources is more in line with the needs of citizens and the level of skills at each level of administration. “, he explained.
THE Minister of the Economy, Finance and European FundsFurthermore, he insisted that lowering taxes, as is currently the case, Andalusia And Madriddoes not have a negative effect on compliance with the spending rule. “The proof is that communities with higher taxes than Andalusia either Madrid They also, in the opinion of the AIREFa greater deviation from the spending rule reference rate.
