It represents a 24% increase thanks to the higher innings, while they will be two tenths more short
The autonomous communities will receive “the largest advance payment they have had in their history” next year. This was announced on Wednesday by the Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, after the meeting she had with the regional councilors of the branch to inform them of the amount of advances that the state will transfer to them for the next financial year. This meeting is the starting signal for the regional authorities and also for the municipalities to get started on shaping their budgets.
Specifically, the communities will get 134,335.6 million from the financing system in 2023, which is 24% more than in 2022; that is 26,130 million more than the previous year.
This set of funds provided by the financing system is divided into a part of record deliveries on account of 124,291.8 million euros, 11% more, and the “very positive” settlement of the year 2021, which reaches 10,980.6 million euros; ie the difference between the estimated income received by the communities (delivery on account) and the actual income at the end of the year, which is settled with a delay of two years, as required by law. It should be borne in mind that for the sum of both concepts, as usual, 936.8 million must be deducted from the negative statements of the years 2008 and 2009.
The result it brings is more than 26,000 million that will go to the autonomous communities to prepare the budgets for 2023, said Montero, expressing the hope that this increased funding will be realized in measures of the areas that complement it. to those of the Spanish government to combat price increases and “support citizens so that they can coexist better”, as is the case with the discount on city and metropolitan transport passes.
The head of the Treasury explained that the total resources of the Autonomous Communities are partly the result of the improvement in collection in 2021, as despite the fact that inflation had remained at 3%, there was an unexpected collection of 8,000 million, as well as the government’s cautious projections, the measures taken and that “strong job creation”.
“It is a misconception for a political formation to accuse the government of keeping pace with the taxes it collects or with the rise in inflation; on the contrary, we have always said that the collection of tax figures is shared by more than 50% with the autonomous communities”, denounced the minister, who defended that “inflation is not fought through fiscal populism, but with effective measures ».
In addition, Montero has transferred the easing of the deficit target of the Autonomous Communities in 2023 to the regional governments from 0.1% to 0.3% of GDP. more demanding reference, going from a stability program deficit of 3.4% in 2023 to a rate of 3.2%. “Those two-tenths more margin will give the Autonomous Communities greater investment capacity in delivering high-quality public services,” the department explains.
The minister recalled that, including the data for 2023, in five years the Autonomous Communities will have received 178,750 million more from the government of Pedro Sánchez than in the last five full years from Mariano Rajoy, representing a 40% increase in the financing of autonomy.
Source: La Verdad
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