The Community of Madrid continues to be the main support of the State’s regional financing system, almost quadruplying the contribution made by Catalonia.
The net contribution of the Madrid community to public coffers reached 7,975 million of euros, while Catalonia contributed 2,266 million and the Balearic Islands, 358 million, being the only three regions that contributed more than they received – with data from 2023, the last facilitated by the Ministry of Finance.
With this equation, the presiding region Isabel Díaz Ayuso It should be by correspondence the one that received the most in compensation, together with Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. But it is not in terms of the first and third, but with the second, which is again the most considered by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
Thus, the autonomous communities of the common regime and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla will receive 156,990 million euros from the state coffers in mode of transfers to the collection of the collection of the yielded taxes, which will mean 6.5% more than what this year received.
And will be Catalonia the region most benefited by the funds of the joint system.
Specifically, they will transfer 30,062 million euros, followed by Andalusia (29,253 million) and the Community of Madrid (21,904 million). They are followed by the Valencian Community (14,885 million euros), Galicia (10,878 million), Castilla y León (9,523 million), Castilla-La Mancha (7,445 million), the Canary Islands (6.8 billion) and Aragon (5,297 million euros).
Minor amounts on account of the common box will receive the Region of Murcia (4,880 million euros), Extremadura (4,461 million), Asturias (3,965 million), the Balearic Islands (3,152 million), Cantabria (2,677 million) and La Rioja (1,440 million euros), in addition to Ceuta (56 million) and Melilla (44 million).
At the same time, the State will transfer next year to the 15 communities and two autonomous cities the amounts corresponding to the liquidation of exercise 2024, which represent another 13,506 million euros, until a joint financing of 170,000 million, a figure that exceeds 7.2% delivered this year.
It is also Catalonia that will receive the highest amount for this concept, 2,812 million euros; Ahead, in this case, of the Valencian Community, with 2,516 million.
Next, there are Andalusia (1,558 million), the Community of Madrid (1,201 million euros), the Canary Islands (1,100 million), Balearic Islands (1,052 million), Galicia (789 million) and Castilla y León (729 million euros).
Lower amounts will receive Murcia (465 million), Castilla-La Mancha (369), Extremadura (263), Asturias (238 million), Aragon (215 million), Cantabria (120 million), La Rioja (26 million), Ceuta (15 million) and Melilla (13 million).
At least the Community of Madrid has the consolation that it is together with Cantabria and Castilla-La Mancha, the regions in which the State deliveries will grow the most in percentage terms in 2026 with respect to the amount they will receive during this year.
Cantabria (7.8%), Castilla-La Mancha (7.1%), Madrid (6.9%) and Murcia (6.7%) will be the ones that grow the most; In addition to Ceuta and Melilla who, together, will be improved by their income from this concept by 8.6%.
The same as the national average (6.5%) will raise deliveries in the regions of Extremadura, Aragon and Andalusia and, a little less, in Catalonia (6.4%); followed by Galicia, the Valencian Community and Castilla y León (6.2% in all three cases) and La Rioja (6%).
They close the list, with lower percentage increases, Asturias (5.6%), Balearic Islands (5.2%) and the Canary Islands (3.1%).