The number of large debtors to the Catalan Tax Agency (ATC) was reduced last year from 51 to 41. The amount owed by these taxpayers, whether individuals or legal entities, also dropped from 88.5 million euros to 73 .8 million. These amounts include both the tax debt and the penalties derived from it.
The list has been published by the Government since 2019, although in the first two years the threshold to make the names of debtors public was one million euros, while now it has dropped to 600,000 euros as a result of a modification of the rule. It is an initiative that is part of the fraud reduction plan. The list includes taxpayers who, as of December 31, 2022, had debts and tax penalties pending payment and corresponding to their own taxes or assigned by the State that manages the ATC.
The biggest debtor, for another year, is the Playbadalona company, from the gaming sector, which in December owed the regional coffers more than 10 million euros. This is the company that owns a bingo hall in Badalona that has been in liquidation for a few years.
Below are two water management companies -Rec Madral and Riera de Cabanyes- that had pending payments of 7.5 and 6.8 million, respectively. The next is the Moramar sports activities company, which is in suspension of payments and owes 3.2 million. Then the first natural person appears, Montserrat Unanue, with more than three million debts.
However, the list is limited because the Generalitat has a limited collection capacity, so the main taxes managed by the ATC are inheritance and donations, property transfers and documented legal acts, those linked to gambling, and liquidations from the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in relation to the water canon.
