The Badalona City Council (Barcelonès Nord) will only increase taxes and public fees by 2.5%. This is the lowest percentage of tax increase in cities with similar characteristics in the metropolitan area. On the other hand, the government stated that the current ordinances are conditional on the budget that will be approved in mid-November, "which has not happened for 11 years."
The fiscal pressure for the citizens of Badalona during 2024 will be minimal, as announced yesterday by the first deputy mayor of the Treasury area, Juan Fernández. "The increase has been conditioned by the imposition, by the State, of a new rate," he noted at a press conference. This is a mandatory tax that will levy the waste tax on each home in the city at 9 euros, about which citizens will have due information through a letter that the municipal government will send to all homes.
Furthermore, the new tax ordinances establish new bonuses for families that choose recycling, implementing innovative systems. Likewise, the most vulnerable families will also have bonuses of up to 50%. "The increase in rates is below - Fernández exemplified - that next year it will be 3.5%.
The IBI, the main income that swells the municipal coffers, will not increase either since "the City Council decides so, since it can regulate the tax rate." The Real Estate Tax, as he explained, "has been frozen since 2015" and will not be reactivated. A separate case is the need for the State to allow a cadastral review to be carried out, which would update the real value of the homes, a situation that has not been updated since 1998.
The economic councilor of Badalona highlighted that "we have accelerated" and in 2024 there will be a new waste collection contract which will allow us to raise the collection level to 197 million, seven million more than what was previously collected and that "therefore , helps supplement the budget."
