Cortegada sets the sinkhole tax for villas at 70 euros

The City Council of Cortegada will apply a fixed fee of 70 euros per dwelling and 100 euros per commercial premises for the sewer network, following the final approval of the modification of the fiscal ordinance regulating this tax. The announcement was published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense on November 13, 2026, in section IV, Local Entities, with the official reference R. 2.628, and bears the signature of the deputy mayor, José Víctor González Vázquez, by virtue of the delegation agreed upon on October 21, 2026.

The modification stems from the agreement of the Plenary of the Corporation adopted in the extraordinary session of March 7, 2025, in which the ordinance was provisionally approved. The text was open to the public for 30 business days, in application of article 17.1 of the revised text of the Law regulating local finances, and as no claims were filed, the initial agreement is considered definitively approved without the need for a new plenary pronouncement, according to article 17.3 of the same regulation. The full publication of the text responds to the mandate of article 17.4 and is the prerequisite for the entry into force of the new tariff.

A single fee per property throughout the municipality

Article 4 of the ordinance, dedicated to the tax quota, establishes that it will consist of a fixed amount per unit of premises, determined based on the nature and destination of the properties. The approved tariffs, applicable throughout the municipal district, are as follows:

• Residential sewers: 70.00 euros.
• Commercial premises: 100 euros.

The text does not introduce consumption brackets or correction coefficients on these amounts, but rather a single amount for each unit of premises, such that the amount depends exclusively on the use of the property. The fee is thus applicable to all properties in the municipality, both residential and commercial in nature.

Annual update according to the CPI

The ordinance incorporates an automatic review mechanism for the amounts. The tariffs may be updated annually in accordance with the consumer price index (CPI) and, for these purposes, the resulting amounts will be published in the Official Gazette of the Province before December 31 of each year, which will be applicable from January 1 of the following year.

This means that the 70 and 100 euros now fixed are not a closed amount in the long term: the Council will review the fee each fiscal year based on the evolution of the CPI and will publicize the new amount before the end of the year, so that the residents know in advance the amount they will pay in the following fiscal year.

Processing and appeal process

Against the agreement of definitive approval, and in accordance with Article 19 of the revised text of the Law regulating local treasuries, interested parties may file a contentious-administrative appeal within a period of two months starting from the day following the publication of the announcement in the Official Gazette of the Province. The competent body to resolve it is the High Court of Justice of Galicia.

The document is dated in Cortegada on November 2, 2026, and is published under reference R. 2.628. On the same date of the gazette, the City Council of Cortegada publishes another fiscal modification, that of the public price for the entry of vehicles through the curbsides and public road reservations, which sets the passage license at 25 euros throughout the municipality with the same annual update regime based on the CPI, under reference R. 2.629.

The entry into force of this new quota requires the readjustment of the sanitation receipt for each property in the municipality, with a tariff that taxes dwellings and premises equally based on their nature and purpose, but which introduces a difference of 30 euros between both uses. For owners, the practical key lies in the annual publication date of the updated amounts, which will determine the amount to be paid from January 1 of each year.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense, November 13, 2026, section IV. Local Entities (official reference: R. 2.628).