THE proposal of the sector of Taxiproduced by the group that manages it (Autacor), increase rates A 2.7% by 2026 speed up again debate around this public transport service – the debate on the need for more licenses … It reopened in the summer. The usual thing is that there are no surprises and that the City Council approves said proposal.
This will mean five consecutive ascending exercises. If you analyze the last five years -what happened from 2020 to 2025-, the cost of getting in a taxi has suffered a growth accumulated that moves about 20%. He president of AutacorJosé Antonio Coca, defend that the increases over the past five years are due to “simple updates regarding the costs production” available to taxi drivers.
To see the evolution practically, ABC takes a practical case: the minimum cost of a trip in the rate one -weekdays from six a.m. to nine p.m.- and two. The latter corresponds to 24 hours on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays; weekday night shifts from (9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.); the dates of Holy Week and the Fair or December 24 and 31 from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The starting situation of 2020 -It must be taken into account, however, that in the previous five years, 2015/2019, it was only in 2018 that there was an increase in prices; in the rest they froze – was it the minimum run in rate one came out for four euros. Currentlythe cost is 4.72. In other words, there was an 18% increase, with an additional cost of 72 cents.
If you switch to an identical service but in the evaluate twodating back to 2020, it was paid 4.91 euros and currently the amount is 5.9. By crossing the two data, we obtain an increase of 20.2%. In hard cash, that’s one euro more to pay compared to five years ago.
The increase is not homogeneous in the two rates because in 2023, both have not increased equally. This year was the year when prices increased the most, both for weekday, weekend and nighttime services. At the first rate, the cost for the citizen increased by 6.8% compared to last year – from 4.12 euros for the minimum rate, it rose to 4.4 – and at the second rate, the increase was greater. The growth extended to almost 9% – from 5.05 euros it rose to 5.5.
Taxi drivers justified this increase in the context of sharp rise in inflation which broke out in Europe after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, and which was felt in its expense accounts; particularly because of the outlays they had to make to acquire fuel.
He the president of Autacor defends himselfin statements to ABC, the increase of the price of this public service in the capital over the last five years. He emphasizes that “these increases are simple updates regarding as far as I know increase costs of production. There are years where they increase more and others less depending on the cost of providing the service.
Coca adds that, if we look at the evolution of the cost of other products and services over the last five years, “ours is surely among the lowest. And this does not only happen here, but it is the same at the Andalusian level”. price of services they adapt to spending needs what do we have for carry out our activity“, he said.
So remember that “always Cordoba had one of cheaper rates“of the Spanish capitals. “The price is calculated based on many parameters: population, income per capita or even seasonal tourism. This is established so that there are guarantees of accessibility to this transport service and that at the same time there is no economic disadvantage for the taxi driver in the exercise of his activity,” explained the head of this group.
A taxi driver gets out of his car at the train station stop
Last report of the consumer organization Facua Regarding this public service, he indicated that Córdoba is one of the cities in the country where more economical East take A Taxi. It studied the existing tariff system in April 2024 in 57 cities – more were added in all provincial capitals in the country. He established a ranking system from highest cost to lowest cost, in which the maximum was 90 points. San Sebastianwith 78, was the more expensive. HAS Cordoba corresponded to location 39 (36).
The sector is now faced with the approval process of the Prices 2026. He has already made his proposal: an increase of 2.7%. If this comes to fruition, the minimum fare for a journey would increase from the aforementioned 4.72 euros to 4.85 euros. At number two, the increase would go from 5.9 to 6.06.
The increase proposed for 2026 is 2.7%, supported by the Citizen Movement Council and opposed by Facua.
He Citizen Movement Council (CMC) positioned itself, in a press release, last week “accept the 2.7% increasecoinciding with the variation in the CPI. This participation body indicated that it would not support a greater increase, because, although it is true that “it is an activity which faces new costs”, these costs “are offset by the new (residential) developments in the capital”. He demanded that the normal rate be extended to new urban growth being developed at the same time as there are inhabited housing, plots under legalization or industrial zones.
Facua released a statement on Tuesday in which critical that he CMC “considers Autacor’s proposal valid, which allows, for example, billing users for more than two million external services of taxi drivers, such as telephone, internet and radio expenses, management services, GPS systems and printers, provided by Autacor itself.” He assured that “the integration of concepts of this type in tariffs, because they have no direct and essential relationship with the provision of the service, violates the principle of proportionality and generates an unjustified increase in the final cost paid by users”.
Economic memory
Despite the increases accumulated in recent years, Facua assured that “citizen complaints persist for the shortage of taxis in certain areas And time slots (in July the city council announced a study to determine if more licenses would be needed, but there has been no further news on this) and for the reduction of hours unique in Spain implemented in Córdoba.
He president of Autacor He defends that “the expenses linked to the provision of the service are included in the economic report” on which this group bases its tariff proposal for each year. THE expenses reported by Facua, Coke said, “No. These are foreign affairs At user; On the contrary, they are for him. If, for example, we want taxi drivers to have a mobile phone for their location, this is an expense that we must value in our analyses.
He says that if the economic report carried out to calculate the increase proposed rates for 2026, “maybe the increase should have been more of the 2.7% raised. “Seville or Malaga are up around 5%, which is the reality of the sector. But here we come from a few exercises of increases consistent with reality and this year, while inflation has been a little lower and there has been cost control, especially in the insurance sector, we have decided to update less, but it is always something that is subject to costs”, he concluded.
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