{"id":38530,"date":"2025-08-08T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i3s.es\/?p=38530"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:10:18","slug":"sap-for-plastic-tax-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i3s.es\/en\/blog\/sap-for-plastic-tax-management\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP for plastic tax management"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Reducing plastic waste and improving plastic waste management is a priority objective of the EU. In fact, in 2018 the <\/span>first european strategy on plastics<\/span><\/a> as a decisive part of the transition to a more circular economy. This strategy aims to defend citizens and the planet, and to empower companies to take on a new way of doing things by reducing plastics. <\/span><\/p>

The <\/span>plastic tax<\/b> is one of the measures introduced by the vast regulation that has been articulated in this regard. <\/span> <\/p>

Every year, Europeans generate 25 million tons of plastic waste, but less than 30% is collected for recycling. Worldwide, plastic accounts for 85% of the waste on beaches. Not only that. Plastics find their way onto our plates and into our bodies, in the form of microplastics that inundate everything, with unknown effects on our health. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The plastic tax in Spain is a fiscal measure with clear environmental objectives: to encourage reuse, reduce waste generation and promote sustainability. This obligation falls especially on companies that manufacture or use non-reusable plastic packaging, which must implement accurate traceability, control and reporting processes. <\/span><\/p>

The plastic tax in Spain responds to a growing concern regarding the excessive use of single-use plastics, which has led the European Union and its Member States to design fiscal policies that discourage their use and promote circular economy models.<\/span><\/p>

In this context, the excise tax on non-reusable plastic packaging in Spain, commonly known as the “plastic tax”, has been introduced in the United States. <\/span>plastic tax<\/b>is a tool to reduce their consumption and environmental impact. The excise tax on non-reusable plastic packaging is an indirect tax currently levied on the use of single-use plastics. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The <\/span>Directive (EU) 2019\/904<\/span><\/a> on single-use plastic products establishes that Member States must implement reduction measures, bans and extended producer responsibility (EPR) systems, to which Spain has adhered through Law 7\/2022.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>

The <\/span>plastic tax<\/b>is, in fact, regulated by Law 7\/2022, of April 8 <\/span>Law 7\/2022 of April 8, 2002 on waste and contaminated soils for a circular economy.<\/span><\/a>in force as of January 1, 2023. And its regulatory development is detailed in the <\/span>Royal Decree 1055\/2022, of December 27, regulating packaging and packaging waste.<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

The main objective of this measure is to reduce the environmental impact of plastic by:<\/span><\/p>