The Governing Council of the Community of Madrid today approves record Budgets that plan to strengthen social policies and reinforce public services in the region. Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community, presents accounts that include an investment of almost 23,000 million destined for Health, Education, Housing, Social Policies and Transportation, a historical record.
The investment in these areas of the regional government, which specifically amounts to 22,889 million, represents 9 out of every 10 euros of the budget autonomous. This set of items experienced an increase of 764 million euros compared to the previous year. In total, the Budget accounts for the next year reach a total of 28,662 million euros after experiencing a 4% increase compared to those of 2024.
The 2025 Budget, which is sent on Thursday to the Madrid Assembly for processing and to achieve the support of the legislative chamber for its entry into force in January, has the endorsement of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF). They are the second consecutive budgets of the Legislature that began in 2023.
The item destined to reinforce healthcare is the one that rises the most among all the Ministries, collecting a increase close to 3%. In total, the Ministry of Health will have an allocation of 10,459 million (294 million more than the previous year), of which 2,622 are exclusively for Primary Care, which once again grows its annual allocation with an increase of 50 million (+ 2%).
In the 2025 budget of the Madrid region, the increases in housing policies also stand out with an increase of 34% compared to the previous year; the new historical maximum for scholarships and study aid (254 million euros); and the increase of 11.9% allocated to dependency to exceed 710 million euros.
The Community of Madrid includes in the draft Budget Law for 2025 a 100% bonus on regional management taxes on the purchase of a home for those affected by Metro line 7B, in San Fernando de Henares, who have purchased a property that replaces the damaged one. The owners or usufructuaries of the houses may benefit from this initiative of the regional government and a tax saving of close to one million euros is estimated.
The bonus will be applied to the Property Transfer Tax in the case of second-hand houses, and Documented Legal Acts for new construction. It will be retroactive from the four years prior to receiving compensation for the consolidation works and repair of structural damage on line 7B.
As explained by the Community of Madrid, the next budgets are designed to support strategic investments such as the expansion works on lines 5 and 11 of the Madrid Metro, the City of Justice in Valdebebas or the new City of Health in the surroundings of the current La Paz University Hospital. At the same time, the Department of Digitalization increases its budget by 10% in order to continue advancing in the technological revolution in the region.
The accounts also provide for a aid line of 500,000 euros for SMEs and individual entrepreneurs in the commercial and service sectors victims in the municipality, with the objective that they can cover investments in infrastructure and equipment for the recovery and revitalization of their businesses.
Soon, they plan to expand the tax deductions on personal income tax, property transfers and documented legal acts that Madrid residents will benefit from in order to access housing. In September he promised a reduction in Inheritance and Donations and the expansion of rent deductions in the Income Tax Declaration in compliance with the “commitment” acquired with the people of Madrid at the polls. These measures will mean an average saving of 180 million euros annually for taxpayers in the region, they explained.
The Madrid Executive has managed to comply with the planned schedule once the process of amendments registered by the rest of the political groups in the Assembly has been completed. The accounts are expected to achieve support of the Madrid Chamberwhere the popular ones have the majority, before the end of the year.
The 2025 Madrid Budget includes the effects of the seven regional laws and 21 tax cuts that have been approved since 2019, the date since Ayuso has held the position of president of the region. Since then, The battery of measures has led to tax savings of 31.3 billion euros for workers and companiesas explained by the region’s Executive.
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