Almonacid de Zorita reopens allegations regarding the tax on energy installations

The Plenary of the City Council of Almonacid de Zorita agreed on November 10, 2026, to reverse the proceedings of file 374/2024 to fulfill the public information process for the new tax levied on the use of public domain for the transport installations of electrical energy, gas, water, and hydrocarbons. The announcement, signed by the mayor-president José Miguel López Aguirre, is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Guadalajara number 216, dated November 11, 2026, in the City Councils section (pages 1 and 2). Interested parties have a period of thirty days to examine the file and submit claims.

The decision was adopted in an urgent extraordinary session and consists of reversing the procedure “for the exclusive purpose of fulfilling the public information process for the provisional approval” of the imposition of the tax and the regulating fiscal ordinance. The agreement incorporates the “express preservation” of the act of September 19, 2024, by which the imposition of the tax and the provisional text of the ordinance were already approved, such that the file goes back solely to complete the public exhibition.

The legal framework invoked by the Council is Article 17.2 of the Revised Text of the Law Regulating Local Treasuries, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5, a provision that requires the files for the imposition of own taxes and the approval of fiscal ordinances to be submitted for public information for a period of thirty days prior to their final approval.

Thirty days from the day following publication

The calculation of the period begins the day after the insertion of the announcement in the provincial gazette, that is, from November 12, 2026. During this period, the file may be consulted and allegations may be submitted through two channels:

• In-person examination at the municipal offices of the City Council of Almonacid de Zorita.
• Electronic consultation at the municipal electronic headquarters (almonaciddezorita.sedelectronica.es).

The final text of the announcement establishes the legal consequence of the process: if no claims have been submitted after the period has elapsed, the agreement will be considered definitively approved. The document is closed in Almonacid de Zorita on November 10, 2026, and bears the verification code 3af8d2e448fd3413c4520ea90aeb47586aae43c0.

A fiscal figure based on the use of municipal land

The projected ordinance creates a tax for the private use or special exploitation of the local public domain, the formula that local treasury legislation reserves for cases in which private companies occupy public land with infrastructure. In this case, the declared object covers four families of transport installations:

• Electric energy.
• Gas.
• Water.
• Hydrocarbons.

The scope of application is expressly limited to the municipal district of Almonacid de Zorita, according to the text of the plenary agreement. The announcement does not reproduce the rate, the taxable base, nor the collection period; therefore, the specific economic conditions of the tax can only be known by consulting the file at the municipal offices or on the electronic headquarters.

A procedure with two phases and a reference date

The file already accumulates two milestones: the initial approval of the tax and the provisional text of the ordinance on September 19, 2024, and the retroaction agreed upon on November 10, 2026, to cover the public information period. Public exhibition is, therefore, the previous and essential step for the municipal tax regulation to enter into force and begin issuing settlements to the companies holding networks in the municipality.

The resolution appears among the announcements of the province’s town halls, alongside other economic procedures of the same City Council, and conforms to the publication model in the Official Gazette of the Province of Guadalajara, number 216, corresponding to Wednesday, November 11, 2026.

The relevance of the news is twofold: for the municipal coffers, the fee opens a revenue stream linked to infrastructure that until now did not pay taxes for land occupation; for companies in the sector, the announcement marks the moment when they can challenge or negotiate the text before it is definitively approved. With the deadline running from November 12, the administrative silence of the interested parties would convert the September 2024 agreement into a tax ordinance in force.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Guadalajara, no. 216, November 11, 2026, section I (Town Halls), pp. 1-2 (official reference: 2026_2955).