Barcelona City Council will implement it from the end of February or the beginning of March a rate Business they took home products purchased online 1.25% of its activity and that it will only affect postal operators who bill more than one million euros a year.
Although he will be born now, his name has been discussed for years. ratio Since Amazon agreed the ERC in 2019 with the Barcelona en Comú government and the PSC as a condition for reaching an agreement on their 2020 budget. Embodiment comes three and a half years after the start of the process, which was complicated by lack. peer. Because the consultation says and the experts who help say it’s a leading rate in Spain and Europe. The rate will be confirmed first in December, definitively in February and if there are no unforeseen events. It will be valid from March.
The municipality will charge a fee of 1.25%, which will contribute a maximum of 2.6 million to the municipality that insists on reducing, not collecting.
2.6 million max collections
In total, the consulate will charge a maximum of 2.6 million euros per year for this delivery at home, this figure was reached after a linked calculation. public space occupation and company billing. It assumes 1.25% of the activity of postal operators, which they will have to pay despite billing more than one million euros per year.
If the phenomenon decreases, if minibuses If the number of people standing in the middle of the street and returning to the vehicle decreases while the delivery man runs to deliver a package, the collection will be lower, but the city council is also good news because it’s been there to understand a change in habits, that’s what’s being pursued. Therefore, transportation of packages to collection points will not be affected by the fee. Another purpose is to prevent electronic commerce from competing advantageously with traditional commerce.
26 companies
The number of postal operators in the Catalan capital, especially Amazon, with a turnover of more than one million euros and, as mentioned earlier, have to pay the fee is 26. Other well-known ones are DHL or UPS, among others. Among the five people who have the most transfer They make up 62% of total billing.
The rate was presented by representatives of the three groups. On behalf of the government partners, the socialists Jaume Collboni and Montserrat BallarínFirst Deputy Mayor and Undersecretary of Finance and Undersecretary for Budget, Jordi Marti, In the city of Comu, Barcelona. ERC councilor on behalf of the party giving rise to the proposal jordi castellana. Everyone congratulated the agreement.
previous calculations
As for the specialists, Doctors of Economics Alejandro Esteller and José María DuránUB professors and members of the Institut d’Economia de Barcelona, respectively, are those who detail and explain the technical cuisine of the subject. From the very beginning, those who had to pay were determined because they didn’t want to hurt either the traditional merchant, the carrier or the customer.
Another challenge was to put a price on the use of public space on the economic value of official public space, in terms used in previous studies. Calculated from the cost and occupancy time to use a blue or green parking lot, 5% of the possible totaland a figure has been reached: the cost of using the public space is EUR 2,590,725 per year due to the availability of home deliveries of these packages purchased online.
The bills of the 26 affected postal operators were approximate. 200 million euros per year. And finally, a linear rate based on the economic value of usage of 2.6 million divided by 200 million billing was proposed, which is a 1.27% rate, rounded up to 1.25%.
Shop from the sofa
All this technical mess follows the above-mentioned change of habits: receiving package at precise points instead of asking at home. Buy less than the sofa. Make the view of the parked van less frequent as the driver unloads a package and gets back behind the wheel.