Overview
- The decree equips the ATC with greater legal and personnel autonomy, a governance contract-program, and creates new tax and IT corps to scale for IRPF management.
- The measure passed with PSC/PSOE, ERC, Comuns and CUP votes, Junts abstention, and opposition from PP, Vox and Aliança, and it will not be processed as a bill.
- Economy chief Alícia Romero said the agency has about 850 staff, lacks in‑house IT and has roughly 30 inspectors, and she flagged the need for major recruitment and a new tech platform.
- ERC backed the step but criticized the lack of a concrete calendar for the IRPF transfer, while Junts likened the plan to a powerful car without fuel.
- The PP said it is studying a Constitutional Court challenge, arguing the move is premature without LOFCA reform, with broader legislative changes pending and full IRPF collection targeted around 2028.