The fiscal gap and the distribution of wealth in the archipelago are once again portrayed in the latest Income Tax Declarants Statistics published by the Tax Agency.
While the debate on the cost of living and wages continues on the streets of Lanzarote, official data reveal the physiognomy of the community's economic elite: in the Canary Islands, 499 people make up the club of taxpayers who declare earning more than 600,000 euros per year.
This figure, which represents barely 0.05% of the total declarants in the islands.
Despite their residual weight on the total Canary Islands population, the group of the super-rich has not stopped growing, in line with a generalized trend throughout the country.
In the last year, the number of top taxpayers in the Canary Islands has increased by 18.2% in one year. In the previous year, the islands registered 422 people in this tax bracket.
Nationally, the group of those who exceed 601,000 euros annually soared by almost 28% in the last analyzed year, reaching 18,829 taxpayers; the highest figure in the entire historical series since 2007.
The largest regional increases were recorded in La Rioja (+84%) and Extremadura (+78%).
The Tax Agency's radiography also highlights the distance from the two major economic and fiscal engines of the State.
The Community of Madrid exercises an undeniable patrimonial centralism, concentrating 8,278 of these taxpayers (44% of the national total), shielded by the capital effect and its tax incentives policy.
Meanwhile, Catalonia consolidates its second place with 4,040 declarants in the highest tax bracket.
The Canary Islands, with its 499 high-income declarants, remains on the periphery of this map of opulence, a great distance from regions such as Andalusia (1,501) or the Valencian Community (1,375).
The reality of the island taxpayer: middle and low incomes sustain the bulk
Far from the income levels of that select 0.05%, the statistical reality of taxpayers in the Canary Islands is in much more modest scenarios. The bulk of society is concentrated in the intermediate and low brackets analyzed by the Treasury.
On a general scale, the most populous bracket in the country is that of those who receive between 30,000 and 60,000 euros annually (23.5%), followed very closely by those earning minimum wage and middle-low incomes who are between 1
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