The Government of Salvador Illa does not expect to start managing part of the IRPF until 2028. Thus it is recorded in the L’G Agència Tributària de Catalunya (ATC) plan, released this Thursday by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Generalitat. The investiture agreement signed between the PSC and Esquerra Republicana indicated in 2026.
The Minister of the Presidència, Albert Dalmau, committed two and a half weeks ago, during the presentation of the Autonomous Financing Agreement for Catalonia after the Bilateral State-Generalitat Commission, to which the Government would present the Atc Master Plan before the end of July, the road map to “reinforce and dimension” the Catalan agency.
The plan, developed by the Minsait consultant, belonging to the Indra conglomerate, contemplates several phases. In the first, the Catalan hacienda will participate in the information and assistance of the next Campanya de la Renta, corresponding to 2025 and that is settled in 2026. For this, it plans to incorporate more than 400 reinforcement agents (in the previous one hired 102 people). To assume all assistance, already in 2027, it will temporarily hire more than 700 agents. You will also need new offices and will also be temporary.
In this phase, Economy contemplates that in the next income statement the corporate identity of the ATC is already presented in the documentation and that this procedure can be carried out through the digital identification system and signature of IDCAT Mòbil documents.
But it will not be until 2028, and through network work, that the ATC “will collaborate in the application of taxes and in the review of the acts, and will have the presence of visual identity in the communications and administrative acts aimed at the taxpayers. In this third stage of the initial phase,” more organizationally and functional complex, “says the Government, the ATC will have to hire more personnel, with structural character, and will have to open more offices, and will have to open more offices, and will have to open more offices. Objective of attending with full guarantees taxpayers.
In an interview with the EFE agency, the Minister of Economics and Finance, Alícia Romero, defends that the Agència Tributària de Catalunya has to move forward “in the management of the IRPF, but to do it in a” solid “and” safe “way, to avoid” fiscal fraud leaks “during the transition period. Romero recalled that IRPF is a great challenge for ATC because it is a massive tax and this agency has barely 850 workers, before the 4,400 that the state agency has in the community.
However, the relevant legal changes in Congress are needed to be approved to completely manage this tax. Namely, Organic Law 8/1980, of September 22, on Financing of the Autonomous Communities (LOFCA); Law 22/2009, of December 18, which regulates the financing system of the Autonomous Communities of Common Regime; and Law 16/2010, of July 16, of the State Tax Transfer Regime to Catalonia, which have to attribute the competence of IRPF to the Generalitat. The calendar and the result of parliamentary procedures are an unknown.
Romero emphasizes that in 2026 the Generalitat already “will win IRPF management elements”, but “we must move very slowly” and do it “with much of rigor”, because the Generalitat has no experience in the tax management of state taxes. “It is not a simple thing to say when the Generalitat can manage the IRPF at 100%,” said the counselor, who does not put a calendar to respect. “We are all aware, also ERC, of difficulties,” he says.
The ATC manages about 5,000 million euros in taxes and raising IRPF means managing about 30,000 million, while the state agency has about 1,500 computer scientists, for any of the ATC, Romero recalls. Beyond staff, technological elements are the touchstone of a successful transition.
Precisely, to prepare the growth of the Catalan hacienda, the Catalan Executive approved on July 22 appoint Santiago Ramon, until now IBM manager, as commissioner for the deployment of the Catalan hacienda. Likewise, the Government has agreed this week with ERC that on August 26, at the meeting of the First Consell Executiu after the return of the summer holidays, a decree will be approved to reinforce the ATC with the creation of two new bodies: one of tax agents and another of computer scientists.
Source: www.eldiario.es
