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Modelo 210, IBI-rabatter, ITP och arvsskatt (ISD) för fastighetsägare i Murcia & Cartagena — allt hanterat av en auktoriserad colegiado som själv bor på Costa Blanca.
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Región de Murcia is a different tax jurisdiction from the Comunitat Valenciana next door. ITP on immovable property is 7.75 % (art. 6.1 DLeg 1/2010, down from 8 % by Ley 3/2025 with effect from 25 July 2025), AJD is 1.5 % (art. 7.1), and the ISD deduction for groups I and II is 99 % of the quota (art. 3.Cinco).
What property owners in Murcia & Cartagena need to know
Región de Murcia — Murcia capital inland, Cartagena and the Mar Menor on the Costa Cálida — runs its own set of ceded-tax rules, and the differences from the Comunitat Valenciana are real enough to change a decision. ITP on immovable property is 7.75 % under art. 6.1 of DLeg 1/2010, a figure Ley 3/2025 brought down from 8 % with effect from 25 July 2025, against 9 % on the Costa Blanca; AJD is 1.5 % here and 1.4 % there. On inheritance the two have converged: art. 3.Cinco DLeg 1/2010 deducts 99 % of the ISD quota for groups I and II, the same headline as art. 12 bis Ley 13/1997 does in Valencia. Gifts are where Murcia is broader — art. 4.Seis extends the 99 % to group III as well, which the Valencian rules do not. Owners in San Javier, Torre Pacheco, La Manga or Los Alcázares therefore file the same state modelo 210 as a Torrevieja owner but a different modelo 600.
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Regional tax framework
- ITP general rate
- 7,75%
- AJD (stamp duty)
- 1,5%
- ISD bonification grupo I/II
- 99%
- Autonomic law reference
- DLeg 1/2010 Murcia
These rates reflect the autonomic (CCAA) framework in force at the time of writing. Municipal IBI rates and bonifications are set separately by each ayuntamiento and we confirm the current figures from the latest ordenanza fiscal before any filing.
In Murcia & Cartagena: municipal taxes and paperwork
- Plusvalía settled with
- Ayuntamiento de Murcia · Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
- IBI billed by
- each ayuntamiento: Murcia and Cartagena bill separately
Municipal plusvalía (IIVTNU) when you sell
The Región de Murcia is a different autonomous community from the Comunitat Valenciana, which changes the ITP and ISD picture — but the plusvalía municipal does not depend on the CCAA at all: it is national law (TRLRHL) applied by each town hall through its own ordenanza fiscal. Murcia and Cartagena are two separate municipalities with two separate ordenanzas, two rates and two sets of coefficients, both bounded by the 30 % ceiling of art. 108 TRLRHL, so a Mar Menor property and a city-centre flat are settled in different places under different figures. The rules of who pays are the same as anywhere in Spain: the seller, unless the seller is a non-resident individual, in which case the buyer becomes the substitute taxpayer under art. 106.2 TRLRHL.
Plusvalía calculator →The 3 % retention and modelo 211
The 3 % retention is state law and applies identically on both sides of the CCAA border: the buyer withholds 3 % of the price from a non-resident seller and files modelo 211 with AEAT within roughly a month of the deed, and the seller settles the real gain on modelo 210 at 19 % (EU/EEA) or 24 %. This is worth stating plainly because so much else does change when you cross from the Comunitat Valenciana into the Región de Murcia — the ITP rate, the ISD reliefs, the regional tax office you deal with. The IRNR side does not: it is administered by AEAT nationally, the forms are the same, the deadlines are the same, and the refund of an excess retention is claimed the same way.
Guide: selling as a non-resident →IBI: the annual bill and who issues it
SUMA does not operate here. It is an organ of the Diputación de Alicante and its remit stops at the provincial boundary, so in the Región de Murcia the IBI is billed by each ayuntamiento directly: the Ayuntamiento de Murcia for the capital and its pedanías, the Ayuntamiento de Cartagena for Cartagena and its coastal districts, each with its own payment calendar, its own direct-debit arrangements and its own ordenanza fiscal fixing the rate and the bonifications. Owners with a flat in the city and a Mar Menor property in a different municipality end up with two unrelated receipts from two unrelated offices — a very common source of missed payments. The national rules apply throughout: 1 January accrual (art. 75 TRLRHL) and arrears following the property (art. 64.1 TRLRHL).
IBI calculator →NIE and empadronamiento
NIE applications for the Región de Murcia go to the provincial Oficina de Extranjería and the authorised National Police stations in the region, not to Alicante — a detail that catches out owners who bought on the Costa Cálida after previously owning on the Costa Blanca. The procedure is national and unchanged: form EX-15, €9.84 on 790/012, five days to resolve, prior appointment through the official system, or a consulate abroad. Empadronamiento is municipal and here that means two distinct registers, one at the Ayuntamiento de Murcia and one at the Ayuntamiento de Cartagena; you register in the municipality where you actually live (Ley 7/1985), and the certificate that town hall issues is the one its own services and bonifications recognise.
Guide: how to get a NIE →Municipal rates, coefficients and bonifications are set by each ayuntamiento in its ordenanza fiscal and revised every year, so none are quoted here. We read the ordenanza in force and confirm the exact figures before any filing.
Specific questions about Murcia & Cartagena
My Murcia herencia got a 99 % bonification — is it really 99 % in cash?
Effectively yes, on the quota. Art. 3.Cinco of DLeg 1/2010 gives heirs in groups I and II a 99 % deduction from the ISD cuota, so a direct-family heir settles roughly one per cent of what the state tariff of Ley 29/1987 would otherwise produce. Two qualifications matter. First, the deduction applies to the quota, not to the base, so the valuation of the estate still has to be right. Second, mind the group: in succession the 99 % reaches groups I and II only — siblings, nephews, nieces, aunts and uncles are group III and fall outside it. Gifts are different here, and unusually generous: art. 4.Seis extends the 99 % to group III as well for inter vivos acquisitions, provided the gift is in a public deed and, for cash or art. 12 LIP assets, the origin of the funds is justified.
I'm UK-resident with property in San Javier (Murcia) and another in Torrevieja (CV). One gestor or two?
One gestor — us. We file the federal modelo 210 (IRNR) for both, since IRNR is national. We handle the CV-specific modelo 600 (ITP/AJD) for Torrevieja and the Murcia modelo 600 for San Javier separately, since each CCAA collects its own. The autonomic ISD planning for both is done in one consolidated estate plan.
Cartagena IBI vs Torrevieja IBI for non-residents?
IBI is municipal in both regions, so the CCAA border changes nothing about it: each ayuntamiento — Cartagena, Torrevieja or any other — fixes its own rate in its own ordenanza fiscal and revises it every year. The only figures the law itself fixes are the outer limits, in art. 72.1 TRLRHL: a minimum of 0.4 % and a maximum of 1.10 % on urban property, with the art. 72.3 increments available on top in defined situations. Anything narrower than that band would be us guessing. The same caution applies to who bills you: arts. 7 and 77.8 TRLRHL let a town hall delegate the management and collection of IBI, so the body to deal with is the one printed on your own receipt. Send us both receipts and we will compare the two properties properly.
I own in both Murcia and on the Costa Blanca. Are the municipal taxes handled the same way?
The rules are the same; the counters are not. Plusvalía and IBI are governed by the same national TRLRHL wherever the property is, but each ayuntamiento sets its own rates and bonifications, and the collecting body differs: in most of Alicante province the IBI comes from SUMA Gestión Tributaria under a delegation, while Murcia and Cartagena each bill their own. Expect two separate calendars, two direct debits and two ordenanzas. The 3 % retention and modelo 210, by contrast, are state-administered by AEAT and identical on both sides.
Recent regulatory changes
The controlling text for ITP, ISD and the autonomic part of IRPF in the region is DLeg 1/2010, and its ITP figure moved recently: Ley 3/2025 de presupuestos generales de la CARM took the general rate on immovable property from 8 % to 7.75 %, in force from 25 July 2025 and without retroactive effect, so a deed signed before that date is still an 8 % deed. The same law lowered the AJD of art. 7, apartado 8 — the rate on transfers subject to but exempt from IVA where the exemption is waived — from 2 % to 1.5 %, which is the general AJD rate here and was already 1.5 %. The ISD deduction of art. 3.Cinco has been 99 % for groups I and II since Ley 7/2017. On the state side, Orden HAC/623/2026 made the rental modelo 210 an annual return filed in the first twenty calendar days of April.
Officiella källor
- DLeg 1/2010 Región de Murcia · art. 3.Cinco — deducción del 99 % en ISD (grupos I y II)
- DLeg 1/2010 Región de Murcia · art. 6.1 — tipo general de ITP sobre inmuebles
- DLeg 1/2010 Región de Murcia · art. 7.1 — cuota gradual de AJD
- RDLeg 5/2004 (TRLIRNR) · arts. 24 y 25 — gastos deducibles y tipos del 19 % y del 24 %
- Ley 35/2006 (IRPF) · art. 85 — imputación de rentas inmobiliarias (2 % y 1,1 %)
- RDLeg 2/2004 (TRLRHL) · arts. 7, 72 y 77 — IBI, banda de tipos y delegación de la gestión
- RDLeg 2/2004 (TRLRHL) · arts. 104, 108 y 110 — plusvalía municipal (IIVTNU)
- Orden EHA/3316/2010 · art. 5 — plazos de presentación del modelo 210