Withdrawn: the Cross-Municipality IBI Rate Comparison
This article has been withdrawn. It was published on 15 May 2026 as a comparison of municipal IBI rates across the Costa del Sol. We are leaving this URL in place, with the correction, rather than deleting it — anyone who read or cited the original is entitled to find the retraction where the article used to be.
What the original claimed
- A table of IBI rates for nine municipalities, described as verified against each town hall's fiscal ordinance, with a separate "luxury sub-zone uplift" for each.
- A surcharge on "special urbanisations", said to raise the rate in named gated communities of Marbella.
- Annual IBI bills and twenty-year differentials for example properties, built on those rates.
- A share of high-value properties said to be over-assessed, and a date and size for the next cadastral revaluation of Marbella.
We are not repeating the figures here, because we cannot stand behind them.
Why it was withdrawn
We could not match the rates in the table to the municipalities' published ordinances, and other pages of this site gave different rates for the same town halls. We found no basis in the ordinances for the "special urbanisation" surcharge the article described. The over-assessment share and the revaluation forecast had no source at all. The article should not have been presented as verified.
What can be relied on
IBI is the annual municipal property tax. It is charged on the property's valor catastral at the rate each town hall fixes every year in its fiscal ordinance, within the band set by the Texto Refundido de la Ley Reguladora de las Haciendas Locales. To know what a specific property pays, ask for its latest IBI receipt; to compare municipalities, read the current ordinance of each town hall. A licensed asesor fiscal or gestoría can confirm both.
Related guides:
- How to appeal an IBI assessment
- Marbella property tax deadlines 2026
- Property taxes in Marbella and Spain
If you relied on a figure from the withdrawn page, please contact us and we will tell you plainly what we can and cannot source.