A total of 235 municipalities in Catalonia have been incorporated into the list of delinquent municipalities compiled by the Ministry of Finance that they will have to apply the new Supplier Payment Plan to settle the oldest invoices accumulated in their drawers.
The Ministry of Finance has added to this list all those town councils with an average term of payment to suppliers greater than legal limit of 30 days in any of the official statistics of December 2020, or March or June 2021.
In this search engine you can find the data on the payment term and outstanding debt of each of these 235 municipalities, with data from September 2021. For all of them, an outstanding debt is estimated for an amount of 114 millionwith data from September 2021.
The list of the new Tax Payment Plan includes a total of 1,640 municipalities throughout Spain and 670 entities dependent on them, of which 235 municipalities and 87 organizations correspond to Catalonia. With this mechanism, the ministry that heads Maria Jesus Montero intends to settle the oldest invoices, prior to July 1, 2021, for an amount that the Treasury estimates to be around 2 billion of euros.
It so happens that many of these municipalities -which in December 2020 or in March or June 2021 had an average payment term of more than 30 days- placed their invoice payment period within the legality in September (30 days ). In fact, of the 235 municipalities identified by the Treasury, only 75 presented in September an average payment term of more than 30 days. This indicates that one in three of the Catalan municipalities with the most delinquent history has been catching up in recent months. This is the case, for example, of the small Barcelona municipality of Sant Boi de Llucanèswhose average payment term has gone from 64 days in the March 2021 statistics to 22 days in the September one.
Suppliers from the 235 municipalities on the Catalan list will be able to collect their oldest invoices from the new Payment Plan established by the Treasury. To make sure of this, they have a deadline until February 25 to check that their invoices have been incorporated by the auditors of each city council in the platform created for this purpose within the State Tax Administration Agency.
In order to help the 235 municipalities of Catalonia identified by the Treasury (1,640 in the country as a whole) to catch up on the payment of their oldest bills, the Treasury will send the municipalities soft loans promoted by the Official Credit Institute (ICO) for a term of 12 years. In exchange, each municipality must submit to the Ministry before March 22 an adjustment plan, with structural measures and reforms, which guarantee that they will not again fail to comply with the legal deadlines for payment to suppliers in the 12 years life of the loan, until 2034. According to the calendars handled by the Treasury, it is foreseeable that the loans will be formalized in the second half of May 2022, and then payments to suppliers will be made.
The 235 Catalan municipalities identified by the Treasury are distributed among Barcelona (77), Tarragona (65), Girona (47) and lleida (46). La Bisbal d’Empordà (Girona), Canyelles (Barcelona), tree (Tarragona) and Ribera d’Ondara (Lleida) head the Treasury list of municipalities that take the longest to pay in each of the four Catalan provinces, with average terms ranging from 1,237 (almost four years) to 194 days (six and a half months) in each case, very over the 30 days established by law.
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However, the largest volumes of debt of these 235 Catalan municipalities are concentrated in Badalona (44.4 million), Lloret de Mar (8 million)_y Sabadell (7.5 million). Only the three of them absorb more than half of the oldest debt covered by the Treasury Payment Plan in Catalonia.