1,188 euros in tax-free allowances: what a Barcelona MP earns just for traveling (whether he travels or not).

In 2015, members of Parliament committed to progressively reforming the structure of their salaries to eliminate the tax-exempt portion of their salaries, travel allowances, or at least to formalize them so that only those who actually travel end up receiving them. However, ten years later, no reform has been completed, and they continue to receive these allowances without paying taxes to the Treasury regardless of what they do—that is, whether they attend Parliament or not, or whether they travel around the country to carry out their work as members. For now, they have limited themselves to making contributions from these allowances to the fixed portion of their salaries—up to five between 2017 and 2023—so that they become taxable, but the bulk of the allowance remains in effect.