The Tax Agency of Catalonia (ATC), linked to the Department of Economy, has recovered 333 million euros that taxpayers had avoided paying to public coffers during 2025, 13% more than the previous year. The study by the Generalitat presented this Thursday only refers to taxes that it has ceded and that, therefore, the Catalan treasury is tasked with collecting.

The ideological axis became evident this Wednesday in Parliament and has overridden the differences on the national axis maintained by parties such as the PP and Junts. The Junts members sided with the Popular Party in defending a bill by Alejandro Fernández's group that proposed eliminating the inheritance tax. The initiative also received the support of Vox and Aliança Catalana, but it will not be processed in Parliament because the amendments to the whole presented by the PSC, ERC, and the CUP have prospered. This tax has always represented the dividing line when identifying a left-wing or right-wing party. And, in this case, it was no exception.

Only three countries in the European Union collect more than Catalonia from inheritance and gift tax, although there are two autonomous communities in the state—the Balearic Islands and Asturias—that also collect more, according to a study by the Bank of Spain. The report, published on July 1 and titled The possible revenue impact of some hypothetical reforms to the inheritance and gift tax, It points out that all autonomous communities could collect more if they adjusted the rates paid for this tax to the levels they had in 1996, when the Spanish government ceded its management to the autonomous communities.