Pantón updates the waste tax with annual fees per property

The Pantón City Council will apply a new waste tax starting January 1, 2027, with annual rates fixed by property type and a 50% bonus for the lowest incomes. The modification of Fiscal Ordinance number 6 was definitively approved after the public information period without objections and is published in full in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo no. 220, Friday, September 25, 2026 (R. 2530).

The Plenary of the Pantón City Council, in the ordinary session of June 26, 2026, provisionally approved the modification of the ordinance regulating the tax for the collection, treatment, and disposal of solid waste. The file was submitted for public information for thirty business days, with an announcement in the BOP no. 151 of July 4, 2026, and on the notice board of the municipal electronic headquarters. As no objections were presented, the agreement is considered definitively approved, and the full text is made public in compliance with Article 17 of Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5. The announcement is signed by the mayor, José Luis Álvarez Blanco, in Pantón on September 16, 2026.

Annual rates by property type

The tax quota consists of a fixed amount based on the nature and purpose of the properties, with these annual rates and their quarterly equivalent:

Urban dwellings: €69.00 per year (€17.25 per quarter).
Rural dwellings: €64.00 per year (€16.00 per quarter).
Hotels, pensions, rural houses, tourist homes, and similar residences, per room: €50.00 per year (€12.50 per quarter).
Restaurants and eating houses: €200.00 per year (€50.00 per quarter).
Cafeterias, bars, and similar: €110.00 per year (€27.50 per quarter).
Professionals, clinics, and offices: €110.00 per year (€27.50 per quarter).
Minor and major trade: €110.00 per year (€27.50 per quarter).
Supermarkets: €140.00 per year (€35.00 per quarter).
Wineries, workshops, and farms: €140.00 per year (€35.00 per quarter).
Recreational and cultural services: €75.00 per year (€18.75 per quarter).

The quotas are annual and irreducible, except for the recognition of the bonus provided for in the ordinance itself.

50% Bonus and taxable persons

The ordinance establishes a 50% bonus on the total amount of the tax for those taxable persons with a family unit income lower than 75% of the Public Income Indicator of Multiple Effects (IPREM). The bonus is upon request, meaning it must be applied for.

Taxable contributors are natural or legal persons and the entities referred to in Article 35.4 of the General Tax Law who occupy or use the dwellings and premises where the service is provided, whether as owner, usufructuary, tenant, or precarious occupant. The owners of the properties have the status of substitutes for the taxpayer and may pass the quotas on to the beneficiaries.

Services, accrual and collection

The taxable event consists of the provision of the mandatory reception service for the collection and treatment of urban solid waste from homes, accommodations, and premises with industrial, commercial, professional, artistic, or service activities. The collection of furniture, utensils, useless items, and any other material assimilable to urban solid waste is voluntary, upon request.

The tax accrues on the first day of each calendar month. Taxpayers must formalize their registration in the census within thirty business days following the first accrual, simultaneously paying the quota for the first quarter. Collection will be quarterly, except in the year 2026, in which the bimonthly system is maintained for census management reasons. This regulation repeals the previous regulatory ordinance of the tax for the provision of the waste collection and treatment service.

Entry into force and appeals

The modification will enter into force on January 1, 2027, following its full publication in the Official Provincial Gazette, and will be applicable until its express modification or repeal. An administrative-law appeal may be filed against the agreement within two months from the day following the publication of the announcement, before the High Court of Justice of Galicia, based in A Coruña.

The new ordinance arrives along with the update of other municipal taxes in Pantón —water, drains, and the supply regulations— and directly affects the bill that families and businesses in the municipality will pay starting in 2027. The main novelty for residents is a 50% bonus for low incomes, which requires an express request, while commercial and hospitality premises assume the highest rates based on their activity.

Source: BOP Lugo, no. 220, September 25, 2026, pp. 15-16 (official reference: R. 2530).