The autonomous regions will receive almost 10 billion euros in arrears for advance payments this month.

The State plans to pay the autonomous communities €9.952 billion this month in arrears on the 2025 advance payments, which were finally updated following the ratification this week in Congress of the royal decree law approved by the Government just over a month ago.

Sources from the Ministry of Finance have informed EFE that the forecast is that these payments, corresponding to the months of January to June , will be made at the end of this month and that the settlement corresponding to 2023 will also be paid during this period, which will mean a total of more than 21.6 billion euros for the coffers of the autonomous regions under the common regime - all except Navarre and the Basque Country.

This will be possible once the Congressional plenary session on Tuesday endorsed the retroactive update of the State's contributions to regional and local governments for 2025. Unlike what happened last January, this time with the votes of the People's Party (PP), which is present in the governments of 12 of the 17 autonomous communities and in Ceuta and Melilla.

Advance payments are monthly transfers by which the State advances to the territorial administrations practically all of what it estimates it will collect from them through transferred taxes and funds , based on the rules established in the regional financing system plus the provisions in this regard in the recently ratified Royal Decree Law.

This includes revenue projections from the regional personal income tax rate , VAT, and excise taxes (on alcohol and derived beverages, intermediate products, beer, tobacco, hydrocarbons, and electricity), as well as from the Guarantee and Global Sufficiency funds.

Based on these criteria, the 15 communities under the common regime and the two autonomous cities will receive total revenue from the State through advance payments of €147.412 billion this year, which is €12.743 billion, 9.47% more than the €134.658 billion received last year.

Compared to the figure from 10 years ago, at the beginning of the economic recovery following the financial crisis, regional governments are now receiving 62.917 billion more, 74.46% more than the 84.494 billion in 2015.

The communities that will see the greatest improvement in their income from this concept compared to last year are Valencia (10.43%), Catalonia (10.18%), Murcia (9.75%), Andalusia (9.63%) and Castile and León (9.54%), all of them above average.

Below that, their deliveries on account of Madrid (9.37%), Galicia (9.23%), Aragon (8.98%), Castilla-La Mancha (8.88%), Canary Islands (8.59%), Asturias (8.56%), La Rioja (8.20%), Balearic Islands (8.13%), Extremadura (7.99%) and Cantabria (6.63%) increase.

Four communities, those with the largest population and economic weight, account for almost two-thirds of this year's total increase: Catalonia (€2,610.04 million), Andalusia (€2,414.55 million), Madrid (€1,756.89 million) and the Valencian Community (€1,323.00 million).

They are also the ones that receive the most: 28,255 million in Catalonia, 27,475 million in Andalusia, 20,499 million in Madrid, and 14,012 million in the Valencian Community.

In the last 10 years, the regions that have seen the greatest growth in their on-account deliveries are the Canary Islands, 148.77%, and the Balearic Islands, 97.26%, ahead of the Valencian Community (87.24%), Catalonia (85.66%), Madrid (79.47%) and Murcia (79.46%), all of them above average.

To a lesser extent, their income has improved since 2015 in Andalusia (72.83%), Aragon (66.51%), La Rioja (64.36%), Castilla-La Mancha (63.78%), Galicia (62.11%), Cantabria (60.38%), Castilla y León (58.86%), Asturias (58.49%) and Extremadura (57.95%).

As for the 2023 settlement, which corresponds to the adjustment that the Treasury makes to the autonomous communities between what was delivered on account two years earlier and what was actually collected , it will be 11,692 million euros, of which Catalonia will receive 2,762.87 million euros, the Valencian Community 1,999.93, Andalusia 1,240.70, the Balearic Islands 1,031.56 and the Canary Islands 986.27.

Madrid is entitled to 794.56 million, Galicia 680.21, Castilla y León 627.52, Murcia 400.64, Castilla-La Mancha 300.34, Extremadura 260.82, Asturias 231.84, Cantabria 197.59, Aragón 125.68, La Rioja 56.02, Ceuta 16.81 and Melilla 14.85 million.