The Institute of Economic Research (IEE) accuses of accumulating tax indicators of the same taxpayer, business organizations, the fact that Spain collects 10 points from productive fabric more than on average for the countries of the OECD. Given this situation, its Grequet Gregorio Cyssordo, on Monday, requested that the “double tax imposition”, which suffered from companies in this country, was fixed.
According to the Fiscal Competitiveness of 2025, prepared by the tax fund, presented this morning IEE and advanced by this newspaper, companies directly and indirectly contribute to 48.8%of the total tax collection, while the average European Union is 39.4%, and in the OECD – 37.8%.
This collection includes, in addition to the tax on societies and social quotes of entrepreneurs and employees, All figures that affect the taxpayer, such as the IRPF owner or owners of the company, local taxes, special taxes that tax their appropriate economic activity and fees. All this puts Spain in the fourth position of the OECD with the help of business -fiscal pressure.
IEE understands that this is due to several factors and claims for the complete recalculation of business taxation. In addition to other measures, he asks that all the tax indicators that fall on the company be determined. One of the most alarming indicators of the report is that from 2012 to 2023 the differences in the GDP of business taxation have grown by 2.3 points, because Spain is a country that has increased in the last decade and, in addition, without defracts They were created or tried to create taxes such as a bank or energy that cause a “very clear” imposition.
Spanish companies They pay taxes “above their economic potential, since bases that do not reflect it are taxed”Says Izquierdo. The company in losses “must continue to pay almost the entire tax burden, for example, IBI, its situation is not taken into account.” Moreover, the burden and accumulation of figures “can lead to many companies.”
Given this, it would be better to “expand tax bases due to fiscal reform, which predominates the fiscal competitiveness of the numbers that are taxation of companies,” adds IEE.
Gregorio Izkerdo confirms that this is not so much a problem of types and gives a tax on society as an example, which in this case is not the most important, but a wide variety of tax figures. “What prevails in other countries of the European Union should be taken into account, to see what we fail and how they decided them.”
The abundant tax burden in Spain causes “The advantages of the Spanish business are more moderate than in our environment”that wages are lower and hires less.
