The garbage rate is already a reality for Valencia. The Plenary Session of the City 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 waste collection and transportation. This tax, which will cost Valencians 47 million euros, will come into force on January 1 and may 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 established in the Tax Ordinance. Thus, private homes located in the section A and section Bwith consumption of up to 65 m3, They will pay 39.14 euros per year. Half of Valencian homes are located 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. Similarly, 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 rise to 272 .83 euros annually.
To this garbage tax we must add the so-called Tamer tax, the tax derived from the treatment and disposal of waste, which will rise by 23% by 2025.
“Sánchez’s big shot”
During the Plenary Session, the Councilor for the Treasury, María José Ferrer San Segundo, accused Pedro Sánchez and his partners in the Government of drafting “the worst law ever made in Spain.” “This outrage is from Sánchez, the PSOE and Compromís. The European directive does not impose anything,” he added.
However, the Treasury Department of the Valencian Consistory has implemented a series of tax benefits so that the imposition of the rate does not result in a deficit. The contemplated bonuses include a 30% reduction for large families; 30% reduction for the habitual residence of families with limited resources; bonus of 10 euros for users who use ecoparks; bonus of 50 euros for economic activities that use “door-to-door” municipal paper and cardboard collection systems.
The two opposition groups, Compromís and PSPV-PSOE have rejected the new garbage ratethe changes in the Tax on constructions, installations and works (ICIO) and have abstained from the rest of the points related to these ordinances. Thus, socialist councilor Borja Sanjuán has accused Maria José Català’s team of establishing “a wrong model, by linking the collection of the fee to water consumption.”
The PSPV spokesperson explained that the cost of the new tax will be more than 40 euros per year for families and has said in this regard that reports from the City Council 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 has also defended that those who pollute the most pay more and has thus considered the amendments “a delirium” of which Ferrer San Segundo has spoken, given that the rate must be “differentiated” to “include a green criterion”, a model that Compromís has also advocated.
Likewise, Sergi Campillo, from the Compromís Group, has declared in plenary that “This fee is purely revenue-raising and goes against environmental objectives.”. A family that correctly separates waste into five bins will pay the same as another with a single bin that does not separate 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 “70 million euros of savings” for them, as well as that the inheritance capital gains tax continues with a 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 charged when the work is done.”
“Do not demonize the real estate sector,” stated the person responsible for 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 has reported a series of town councils that have established ICIO payment at 4% “such as Barcelona, Paterna, Alboraya and Cullera.”
The two opposition groups have described the tax reduction that the government team spoke about during the plenary session as a “tax scam” and have stressed that those with the most resources are those who pay the least and those who have the least are the ones who pay the least. who pay the most. In this sense, Borja Sanjuán has asserted that Valencian families will have to pay 420 euros more per year in taxes with Catalá.
From Compromís, Eva Coscollà has regretted that the Catalan government talks about “harmonizing when it raises taxes.” “The City Council is limited in its spending, the accounts don’t balance, it needs to have more income and it tries to balance the budget with hammer blows,” concluded the mayor, who described the budget execution as “bad.”
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