The income campaign is one month old and millions of Spaniards have already collected the personal income tax payment if they were paid back. An income to support their economies that already reaches 68.6% of the declarations presented with results to be returned, according to the data presented this Tuesday by the Tax Agency.
The figures reveal that so far 8,267,000 declarations have been submitted online, 23.3% more than at the same time last year. It must be taken into account, however, that this year the campaign has started a week in advance.
Of these, 6,692,000 result in a refund, of which 4,587,000 have already been paid, 15% more. In total, the Tax Agency has already disbursed 3,135 million euros in refunds, 20% more. Seven out of every ten declarations with results to be returned have already been paid, says the Tax Agency. If the declarations are compared with the returns already made, on average the returns are 683 euros per taxpayer.
On the opposite side are the 1,156 million declarations to be entered, which grow by 21.6%, who prefer to get rid of the process but who "do not have to make the first payments until the end of the campaign", reads the release.
If you put the magnifying glass on the autonomies, there are some in which more declarations have been paid than in others. Even within its borders there are notable differences: in Andalusian lands in Jaén, 64% of the declarations with results to be returned have already been paid, nine points less than in Almería.
In the common regime autonomies, the highest payment rate, where more refunds have been received in percentage terms, is Madrid, with a rate of 73.45% of refund requests paid (1,020,947). They are followed by the Canary Islands with 70.67% (260,081 declarations), Extremadura (68.80%) and Andalusia (68.26%, 96,261).
Catalonia remains below the average, with 65.80% of the requested refunds already paid (614,414). Only La Rioja (65.38%, 29,516), Castilla La Mancha (65.30%, 178,403), the Balearic Islands (63.18%, 65,966) and Asturias (63.15%, 92,687) are below. The lower rate may also be influenced by the fact that there are more declarations under review.
The Valencian Community, Aragon, Murcia, Galicia, Castilla y León and Cantabria are in the middle, with return rates between 67.9% and 65.9%.
