The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced this Wednesday that her Government intends to eliminate all the own taxes that the region had until now. It is, specifically, the suppression of two, the tax on the installation of recreational machines in authorized catering establishments and the tax on Waste Deposit.
This was announced by the regional leader herself at the press conference after the Governing Council, where it was agreed to initiate the processing of the Law for the abolition of these taxes, which will have to be approved later in the Madrid Assembly. “Madrid will become the only autonomous community with a common regime without its own taxes,” Ayuso stressed.
According to the data provided by the regional Executive, in the Community of Madrid, the collection for these taxes barely accounts for 0.02% of the total, that is, 0.7 euros per inhabitant compared to a total collection of 3,415 euros per taxpayer. In 2020, the total taxation for both taxes was 3.4 million euros.
The tax on machines in authorized catering establishments is levied on the installation of recreational machines, with or without a prize, in this type of establishment. It is a tax that for the Government of the Community has become obsolete after the creation of the state tax on gambling.
Currently, the Community of Madrid is the only region that has a tax of these characteristics, its collection being residual since the bulk of taxation remains in the tax rate on gambling. Thus, in 2020, 1.2 million euros were paid for own tax while 144.6 million were collected for the tax rate.
For its part, the tax on waste disposal, aimed at protecting the environment, will be overlapped by the state tax that the Government of Spain is going to implement. In 2020, the collection in the Community of Madrid for its own tribute was 2.2 million.
On the other hand, the Community of Madrid has a 0% surcharge on the Tax on Economic Activities (IAE) since 2009. This tax is levied on the exercise of business, professional or artistic activities in national territory. Management is shared between the State and the communities.
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