Spanish taxpayers

have already paid more than 100,000 million

euros for Personal Income Tax, the IRPF.

And they did it already in November, which is as far as the latest collection report from the Tax Agency reaches, so the year-end data will be even higher.

That barrier had never been crossed before

in the history of Spain and the Government, indeed, expected to achieve it in 2022. But the milestone was achieved a month before the end of the year, a sign of the good progress of the collection.

"Until November, the homogeneous income in personal income tax grew by 16.3%," says the document published yesterday, and which indicates that

income from personal income tax is specifically 102,590 million

euros for the 88,408 million accumulated in the same month last year.

The last known data for 2022 also far exceeds the slightly less than 95,000 million of all of 2021.

The Tax Agency highlights the "very stable increase in withholdings from the public sector", that is, civil servant salaries and pensions.

And he adds that, in November, there was a certain additional "upturn" in the salaries of public workers due to "the additional rise of 1.5%" that the Government decreed within the multi-year agreement on salary increases.

"

The impact will be completed in the coming months when

it is extended to the rest of public employees, breaking that stable trajectory that has been commented on," says the agency under the Ministry of Finance.

In the private sector, on the other hand, the Tax Agency is already beginning to detect "increasingly moderate increases,

due to the lower intensity in job creation

in recent months compared to what occurred in the first part of the year" .

Even so, the institution headed by Soledad Fernández highlights that the good progress of the labor market throughout the year has been essential in the increase in income from Income Tax.

To this must be added, without a doubt, the effect of the wage increases that have been agreed to deal with inflation.

And, jointly, the refusal of the Government to adapt the tax

to prices

is also being very relevant .

What is called as deflate the rate.

In the economic literature it is widely recommended to take this measure, since doing so does not imply lowering taxes but

not doing so is a hidden tax increase

.

In these same pages, Ignacio Zubiri and Carlos Monasterio, two of the tax experts that Minister María Jesús Montero included in her group for the tax reform but who abandoned it due to discrepancies, claimed the need to deflate the tax.

And from the opposition, the Popular Party has requested this measure for the lowest income brackets on numerous occasions.

But the Ministry of Finance has always refused, which means a

double punishment for the workers

.

Because, on the one hand, they are asked to make an effort to form part of the income pact and accept a salary increase below inflation and, therefore, lose purchasing power;

and, on the other, because they also have to pay more taxes for that salary improvement.

The increase in prices also has a noticeable effect on

VAT collection, which is already close to 80,000 million

and which is also an all-time high.

«The feature that has characterized the entire year has been the strong increase [21% until November] in gross income [the most linked to the recent situation], as a result of price increases [from November 2021 to September 2022, which is the period to which the income corresponds, the general CPI increased by 8.5%] and, above all, the expansion of consumption”, explains the document from the Tax Agency.

To these figures we must still add the more than 28,000 million that accumulate in corporate tax, which represents an increase of 28% compared to 2021, although the figure is still very far from the figures that were reached before the financial crisis and which will hardly be registered again in the short and even medium term.

Excise Taxes contribute a little more than 18,000 million more, data that in this case is very much in line with that of last year, and 10,200 million more than the rest of the figure.

At this point, the income from hydrocarbons stands out, which exceeds 11,000 million, and also the spectacular increase due to the figures on alcohol, which grow by 25% compared to last year.

With all this, the global

tax collection data is almost 240,000 million

, which is not only more than everything entered in 2021 but also exceeds the estimate that the Ministry of Finance had for the whole year.

And the forecast is that next year all these figures will be even higher.

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