Skip to content

Where are you from?

Choose your province and we will tell you how the deputies and senators you elected vote, one by one.

 

We remember it in this browser. If you create an account, we keep it there.
Sign in

Type a law, a topic, a person or a province.

What it is

Raises alcohol and tobacco taxes and approves urgent spending

BOE step 7 of 7 · Passed

It is a royal decree-law. It was introduced on 2 July 2013. Introduced by: Gobierno.

Official title: Royal Decree-Law 7/2013, of June 28, on urgent measures of a tax, budgetary, and research, development, and innovation promotion nature.

Follow

Source: Congreso de los Diputados, file 130/000037· updated 11 Nov

Automatic summary, not yet reviewed

  1. Raises the rates of the Tax on Intermediate Products and the Tax on Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages by 10%. New amounts per hectoliter are set, with slightly lower rates in the Canary Islands.
  2. Reforms the rates of the Tax on Manufactured Tobacco: cigarettes, cigars and little cigars, rolling tobacco and other products. Minimum rates go up and a flat rate is created for other tobacco products.
  3. Sets five priority areas for aid paid with the share of personal income tax The personal income tax (IRPF in Spain): what people pay on what they earn from work, business or savings. (IRPF) earmarked for social purposes: health and social care, education and job placement, public safety, environmental protection and development cooperation.
  4. Creates the figure of Third Sector entities collaborating with public administrations: nonprofit organizations that may inform, take part as interlocutors and cooperate in public policies. Political parties, unions, universities and business organizations, among others, are excluded.
  5. Approves credit supplements: over 128 million euros for the Ministry of Agriculture (repairing storm damage, paying earlier commitments and buying a firefighting plane) and 104 million for the Ministry of Economy (R&D grants and funding for the CSIC). They are financed with public debt.
  6. Lowers the deposit required from bidders at real estate auctions from 20% to 5%, and extends until November 15, 2013 the deadline for municipalities to request the update of cadastral values used for the property tax (IBI).

Who it affects

  • Alcohol and tobacco manufacturers and consumers: Pay higher tax rates from the entry into force of the rule.
  • Nonprofit organizations: Can be recognized as collaborating Third Sector entities and work with public administrations.
  • Municipalities: Get extra time to request or withdraw their application to update cadastral values for the IBI.
  • Bidders at judicial auctions of real estate: Must deposit only 5% of the value of the goods instead of 20%.
  • Local governments and their dependent entities: Are temporarily outside the borrowing regime of the Local Government Finance Law after being classified in the public sector.

Words worth knowing

Impuestos Especiales (special taxes)
Taxes paid on consuming certain products, such as alcohol or tobacco.
Tipo específico y tipo proporcional (specific and proportional rate)
The specific rate is a fixed amount per unit of product; the proportional rate is a percentage of the price.
Valor catastral (cadastral value)
The administrative value assigned to a property, used to calculate the IBI property tax.
Suplemento de crédito (credit supplement)
Extra money added to an already approved public budget.
Postor (bidder)
A person who takes part in an auction by offering money for the item being sold.
income tax
The personal income tax (IRPF in Spain): what people pay on what they earn from work, business or savings.

It summarizes the law as published in the BOE. It is written by artificial intelligence and may contain mistakes: the official text is what counts. Read the official text · How we make summaries

Where it stands

How far did it get?

It took 7 of 7 steps. It reached BOE, and today it is passed.

  1. Introduced2 July 2013Someone registers the text in the Congreso.
  2. Admitted11 July 2013The Bureau of the Congreso accepts it and, for a members’ bill, the plenary decides whether to consider it.
  3. Amendmentsno dateGroups propose changes.
  4. Committeeno dateA committee goes through the text in detail.
  5. Plenary11 July 2013All 350 deputies vote.
  6. Senateno dateThe Senate can pass it, amend it or veto it.
  7. BOEno dateIt is published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and comes into force.
See the 4 official steps on a timeline
Jul 201311. 2 July 2013: Presentación22. 11 July 2013: Calificación33. 11 July 2013: Pleno Convalidación desde 11/07/2013 hasta 17/07/201344. 17 July 2013: Concluido - (Convalidado) desde 17/07/2013 hasta 24/07/2013

17 July 2013

How did the plenary vote?

More votes against 138 yes · 180 no

Voted on: Processing as a Government bill by the urgent procedure of Royal Decree-Law 7/2013, of June 28, on urgent measures of a tax, budgetary, and research, development, and innovation promotion nature.

This law had 2 votes; this is the latest with every deputy’s vote. See them all

Source: Congreso de los Diputados, vote 4 of sitting 123· updated 10 Nov

This vote does not publish each seat’s vote: the dots are drawn from the totals.

Your province

How did the deputies from your province vote?

And your senators: the Senate does not link its votes to this law in its open data, so we cannot put them side by side here.

What happens next

What happens now?

It is law, or will be once published in the BOE. It comes into force on the date its own text sets.

Published in the BOE: Royal Decree-Law 7/2013, of June 28, on urgent measures of a tax, budgetary, and research, development, and innovation promotion nature.

Sources

Where does all this come from?

  • The data comes from the open files of the Congreso, the Senate and the BOE, unaltered.
  • Each deputy’s province is the one of their seat on the day of the vote.
  • We only say “passed” or “rejected” when the majority needed is certain; otherwise we say which side had more votes.

Read the full method · Report an error