The Catalan Tax Agency reveals €295 million in defrauded funds in 2024.

BarcelonaThe Catalan Tax Agency (ATC) has discovered €295 million in tax fraud in 2024, a 3.15% increase over the previous year. This figure, together with that for 2023, raises the amount defrauded in the last two years to €581 million, well above the fraud detected in the first two years of the previous plans, which began in 2015 and 2019. In the last decade, the ATC has uncovered a total of 2.

This year's data comes from the 2024 results report of the third plan for the prevention and reduction of tax fraud and the promotion of good tax practices 2023-2026. To raise these nearly 300 million euros, the inspection, management, and collection areas have carried out 52,933 fraud prevention and reduction actions, 2.8% fewer than in 2023 (54,544 actions).

Inheritances, donations, and wealth

The vast majority of the money uncovered (75%) last year corresponds to inheritance and gift taxes and wealth taxes. Specifically, 42% of the fraud comes from inheritance and gift taxes, at €124 million, and 33% from wealth taxes, at €97 million. Meanwhile, the tax on property transfers and documented legal acts, at €69 million, represents 23%, and the remaining taxes, at €5 million, account for 2% of the total.

Another practice the Catalan tax agency has focused on has been fictitious changes of residence. In total, 56 assessments have uncovered fraud totaling €15.5 million. Half of this, €8.5 million, has been attempted to be falsely located in other autonomous communities, and the remaining €7 million in other countries. For its part, the ATC has conducted eight assessments of undeclared assets located abroad, uncovering a total of €0.3 million.