At the beginning of 2025, all Madrid residents who own a home or premises will receive a new receipt from the Madrid City Council at home. There will be 1.7 million letters with the cost of the garbage tax, which the council recovers after ten years of absence, due to a state law that requires all municipalities to collect it.
The amount of each receipt is still unknown and the Treasury area has only offered the average amount of the tax so far, about 140 euros throughout the city. But the figures from the Budget project for next year allow us to advance the average costs that the rate will have in each of the 131 neighborhoods of the capital.
According to calculations carried out by Más Madrid using the average cadastral values per neighborhood in 2023 and applying the formula for calculating the tax rate, the opposition party has estimated an average waste rate, with important variations depending on the neighborhoods.
The rate has a basic part, linked to the cadastral value of each home, and another complementary part, which takes into account the amount of waste generated and the percentage of quality of the separation of each of the neighborhoods, according to data from the Valdemingómez Technology Park. .
In this way, the districts that will pay the most will be those where housing is more expensive in Madrid, although in some cases the complementary part varies significantly. The most expensive place is El Plantío (Moncloa-Aravaca district), with an average receipt of 574 euros, followed by El Viso (Chamartín) with 457 euros, Recoletos (Salamanca) with 430 euros and Los Jerónimos (Retiro) with 427 euros.
At the bottom of the statistics are the neighborhoods of San Cristóbal (Villaverde) with 45 euros, Pradolongo and Zofío (Usera) with 59.34 euros and Amposta (San Blas-Canillejas) with almost 62 euros.
The criterion for calculating the rate has been constructed by adding a basic rate, which all properties will pay for the availability of the waste collection and treatment service, and a rate per generation. The first part (which weighs 81% on average, according to the City Council) takes into account the cadastral value of the home and for the second, generation (the remaining 19%), it looks at the amount of waste generated and the percentage quality of the separation of each of the neighborhoods.
The number of properties that will pay the rate is around 1.7 million, but garages and storage rooms associated with a home are exempt from payment, because they do not generate waste, nor are plots of land and buildings in a state of ruin. Empty homes and premises where no activity is carried out will only pay the part corresponding to the basic rate for availability of the service, but must prove annually that they remain in this situation.
In the case of homes, the average bill that will have to be paid is 141 euros, while properties for commercial use will have an average fee of 310 euros. The first receipt will reach each taxpayer in the first months of 2025, in the form of a notification of registration of the rate with its corresponding settlement, with a period of two months for payment from receipt. In subsequent years, this individualized notification will not be necessary as it is managed through the registration system, just as it is done with the IBI.
Inequality in the complementary part
The calculations carried out by Más Madrid show important differences between neighborhoods when calculating the complementary rate, which the party has calculated based on the waste per person registered in the neighborhood (generation rate), multiplied by a quality coefficient, in function of waste separation by district.
The result of the calculation indicates that the most vulnerable neighborhoods in the city will be the ones that will contribute the most to the variable costs. If we look only at that part of the payment, the list of contributions is very different from the final sum:
“The neighborhoods that are cleaned less and have more waste pay more, because the Almeida tax has no way of differentiating the management carried out by each resident of Madrid,” laments Rita Maestre. “Simply by living in a neighborhood where there is more waste and less cleaning, you are going to pay more. Because inequality in cleaning is a Madrid fact.”
Maestre also assures that “the amount of the fee is directly linked to the management and treatment of garbage that Almeida has done in the city of Madrid, which has been a disaster and has a negative impact on the southern neighborhoods. This rate is the result of this mayor’s worst garbage management.”
Más Madrid denounces that the southern neighborhoods have to pay more of the complementary tax, in proportion, than those who live in the north. “On top of that, they are the neighborhoods that hold all the city’s garbage, that carry the incinerator, the treatment plants, the landfills…” says Maestre. “It should be the opposite, these neighborhoods would have to have bonuses or exemptions for welcome “infrastructures linked to waste management and contaminated water treatment.”
Its Councilor for Finance and Economy, Sara Ladra, questions the very design of the rate, verifying that the 80/20 proportion described by the mayor “is not true.” “There are neighborhoods in which the percentage of the rate that they are going to pay for the kilos of garbage generated by their neighborhood, modulated by the quality coefficient (depending on the quality of the separation) exceeds 50% of the total rate. , is the case of Entrevías or Aeropuerto,” he adds.
Finally, it indicates that the current calculation “is not rigorous and has serious errors because there are clear inconsistencies.” What Más Madrid believes is that “non-residential waste is clearly being counted in the residential quota” and they demand that the figures be reviewed.
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