Tax experts link the rejection of paying taxes to legal insecurity and administrative burdens, while the IRPF reaches its highest rate in history, 15.1%.
Citizen discontent with paying taxes is growing, according to tax experts who relate it to legal insecurity, constant regulatory changes, and administrative burdens that, in many cases, they consider disproportionate.
This is reported by pressdigital.es from the XXXVI Congress of State Tax Inspectors, held in Toledo. Tax inspector and writer Francisco de la Torre places the discontent on the destination of public money, a problem that, according to his analysis, existed before.
De la Torre estimates the tax burden at around 38% of GDP and recalls that the IRPF records its highest rate in history, 15.1%. Regarding taxpayers' perception, he states:
There is discontent with how taxes are collected
The professor of Public Finance at UCLM and former director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Juan José Rubio Guerrero, cites recent studies indicating that 31% of young people believe they would be better off without taxes, compared to 9% of those over 65 years old.
Among the solutions, Rubio proposes more transparency and strengthening tax education, especially among the younger population. According to his words:
We need to explain rights and levels, not just obligations; we need to show the economic and social role of taxes
De la Torre attributes part of the problem to the absence of General State Budgets throughout an entire legislative term. In his opinion, budget extensions prevent a clear understanding of where public revenues are allocated, and taxpayers direct that discontent towards tax inspectors.
The former president of the Court of Auditors María José de la Fuente y de la Calle agrees that the continued extension of budgets complicates the allocation of resources in State Administration and tax administrations. She adds that spending more does not equate to better public services, but rather to spending better.
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