He admits that they have not decided how much taxes they will give up
CADIZ, September 27 () –
The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, specified this Friday that the agreement sealed this summer between the PSC and ERC for a unique financing of Catalonia contemplates transferring only 100 percent of the personal income tax collection to the administration. Catalan, and the “vocation” to do the same with more taxes, but “over time.”
In statements to the media before presiding over the central event of the 95th Anniversary of the Cádiz Free Zone, the vice president and Minister of Finance spoke in response to the question of whether the agreement between the PSC and ERC will involve the transfer of 100% of taxes to Catalonia.
María Jesús Montero has pointed out that this agreement “says very clearly what is the vocation of self-government that certain political parties have”, and “what is being said is that, gradually, over the years, over the time, the vocation consists precisely in collecting the large part of the taxes that are collected in Catalonia”, continued the minister, who pointed out that “right now what we have is regarding personal income tax, which is what appears in the agreement “.
“And everything that does not appear in the agreement is neither agreed upon nor decided, and will have to be with the rules that we put in place when we finish developing and specifying all the extremes that are contemplated there,” added María Jesús Montero.
Next, he added that what can be read in the agreement speaks “literally of a date for what personal income tax means”, and “a vocation that, over the years, there is an expectation” of transfer of all taxes to Catalonia.
To the question then whether they have not decided how many taxes are going to be transferred, the minister answered “no”, and explained that “what is decided is what comes in the agreement.” Along the way, he commented that “there are many people here who are constantly saying that the agreement be explained”, but “the thing is that the agreement is explained by reading it, and the agreement says everything.”
Montero has pointed out that “of course this agreement must be developed with norms and laws that will descend to the different levels”, and after emphasizing that “it has been barely a month or so” since it was signed, he added that “this debate”. “We will have a lot to discuss, a lot to agree,” he stated.
“UNIQUE FINANCING COMPATIBLE WITH THAT OF THE WHOLE” OF CCAA
That said, Montero wanted to convey that the singular financing for Catalonia is “compatible” with the financing of all the territories, “which also have singularities”, and has assured that “of course there will be a bilateral and also multilateral negotiation” with the autonomous communities.
Along these lines, he has defended that “the Government’s vocation is precisely to be inspired by this agreement” to be able to escape the “immobility” of the reform of the financing model.
In this regard, he has criticized that the PP “does not have a model reform proposal”, so that “it says one thing in Madrid, another in Galicia and another in Andalusia”, and “all attempts at agreements” with said party “are rejected” by the ‘popular’ party, which “does not want to sit down as a party to talk about this. “What he wants is anger in the multilateral bodies or in the territory,” he indicated.
Montero has then expressly referred to the president of the Junta of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, whom he has criticized for hearing him “talk about a bilateral relationship, demonizing it, when the Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia precisely marks the bilateral relationship in the review and in the approval of the reform of the financing model”.
“So it is not understood that Mr. Moreno Bonilla, who sometimes wants to show off, although he does not succeed, that he firmly believes in autonomy, then does not exercise his powers and it seems that he has not read the Statute,” he said. finalized.
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