MADRID, 7 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -
Murcia, the Valencian Community, Andalusia and Castilla-La Mancha are the four common regime communities that registered in 2021 a financing rate for homogeneous skills per inhabitant adjusted below the average, according to a study by the Foundation for Applied Economics Studies (Fedea).
Fedea has published this Monday a note prepared by Ángel de la Fuente in which the liquidation of the regional financing system (SFA) corresponding to 2021 is analyzed, which has recently been made public by the Ministry of Finance.
Specifically, and taking into account that the national average is 100, in 2021 Murcia had a definitive financing index for homogeneous skills per adjusted inhabitant of 90.8 while the Valencian Community had it of 92.1, Andalusia of 94, 3 and Castilla-La Mancha of 1995.
Compared to the previous year (2020), the definitive financing index for homogeneous skills per adjusted inhabitant fell by 1.5 points in Murcia; it fell at one point in the Valencian Community; it rose two tenths in Andalucía and dropped one point in Castilla-La Mancha.
Meanwhile, above the average are Cantabria (115.3); Balearic Islands (114.6); La Rioja (112.7); Extremadura (110.9); Canary Islands (107.1); Castilla y León (106.3); Asturias (103.1); Madrid (102.1); Catalonia (101.7); Aragon (101.6) and Galicia (101.3).
All in all, the strong advance of the Balearic Islands, which gained 5.5 points and the decline of Murcia (-1.5), Valencia (-1.0) and Castilla la Mancha (-1.0) is particularly striking. ) that, while remaining among the last positions in the distribution, move further away from the mean. On the other hand, the improvement of Extremadura (1.2) and the fall of Cantabria (-1.7) also stand out.
As Ángel de la Fuente explains in the report, the variations registered in 2021 in the relative positions of the different autonomous communities in terms of effective financing per inhabitant adjusted to homogeneous skills have been appreciable in some cases, and in them they have played a significant role the recovery of tax revenues after the pandemic and the usual dance in the communities receiving the two tranches of the Cooperation Fund.
All in all, and according to Fedea's calculations, the total volume of definitive financing of the autonomous communities under the common regime, measured by homogeneous powers and the same fiscal effort, experienced an increase of around 18,000 million euros in 2021 (16%). compared to 2020, mainly due to the recovery of regional and state tax revenues after the collapse caused by the Covid crisis.
According to the Foundation, this increase has been mitigated to some extent by the reduction of some 2,500 million in extraordinary transfers from the State to deal with the pandemic. Definitive financing data is not yet available for more recent years, but the resources subject to liquidation provided by the system fell slightly in 2022 (-0.87%) and rebounded strongly in 2023 (19.3%).
The sum of the positive balances indicates that the system provides communities with lower income with extra resources, above their tax revenue, for an amount of almost 20,000 million euros. These resources come partly from the State (which contributes almost 11,000 million euros) and partly from the communities with the highest per capita income (Madrid, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands) which contribute another almost 9,000 million.
Contributions to equalization represent around 8% of regional tax revenue in the Balearic Islands, 9% in Catalonia and 24% in Madrid. On the side of the receiving communities, revenues from this channel exceed 20% of homogeneous tax revenues in ten cases and are particularly important in the Canary Islands, where they account for more than half of total revenues, and in Extremadura, where they exceed 40%
