Pamplona and Vitoria pay lowest IBI property tax; Lleida and Tarragona the highest
Thursday, December 3, 2015 @ 6:40 PM
HOMEOWNERS and landowners in Pamplona (Navarra region) pay the lowest average asset tax or IBI per head in the country, whilst those in Lleida (Catalunya region) pay the highest.
A recent study by the national tax collection agency in Madrid of Spain's 52 provincial capital cities showed that the mean average in Pamplona (pictured) is €22.69 per year and in Lleida, €140.02.
These figures are in fact strongly skewed, since tax on a small plot of green-belt land may only be a single-figure sum, whilst on a villa with land may be several thousand – also, the figures are taken per head for every member of the population including children, rather than per property.
Also, some provincial capitals have not carried out a catastral, or basic land value review for years or even decades, meaning values are out of date.
Whilst it is the catastral or land registry – part of the ministry for the treasury – which calculates these values, town and city councils have the freedom to decide what percentage of this they will charge as tax within certain limits, normally ranging from 0.6% to 1.1%.
Read more at thinkSPAIN.com