The commission of experts for the Tax Reform has not achieved in its long meeting today a consensual proposal on fiscal harmonization in matters of taxes assigned to the autonomies such as that of estate or succession, according to sources familiar with the content of the meeting. In fact, the commission, made up of 16 expertshas been called to hold a new meeting on February 17.
During the meeting there was a prolonged debate on the issues to be included in the final text that should be delivered to the Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Monterobefore the end of this month. “There is consensus that it is necessary to harmonize. Another thing is how,” say sources consulted. And it is that the margin that the State has is very wide, even suppress certain tax figures assigned and compensate the autonomies. There are also intermediate degrees, such as a similar minimum between territories and other formulas. And in all this also comes into play the degree of tax autonomy of the communities, on which there are also different points of view.
In any case, the possibilities of a consensus proposal are closely linked to whether the document is limited to making a list of possibilities or if, on the other hand, it defends some formulas against others, according to the sources consulted.
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This Thursday’s meeting had to be more definitive than it has been in the end. At the end of January there was another meeting in which it was not possible to close a document with proposals to the ministry either. The proposals largely revolve around incorporating technology into the tax system to prevent the flight of resources that occurs with digital transactions, cryptocurrencies, family offices and other instruments that erode tax bases.
In April of last year, the Finance Minister presented the commission of 17 experts to prepare a white paper for tax reform. Presided over by Jesús Ruiz-Huerta (creator of the fiscal balances with the socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero) and with Alain Cuenca (general director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies) as secretary, this group then had professors and experts such as Fran Adame, Antonia Agulló, Olga Cantó, Laura de Pablos, Santiago Díaz de Sarralde, Xavier Labandeira, Santiago Lago, Guillem López Casasnovas, Julio López Laborda; David López Rodríguez, Carlos Monasterio, Saturnina Moreno, Violeta Ruiz Almendral, Maria Teresa Soler and Marta Villar. The committee came to have 18 members, with the subsequent entry of Ignacio Zubiri, professor of Public Finance at the University of the Basque Country. And now, after his departure and that of Carlos Monasterio, professor of Public Finance at the University of Oviedo, he is 16.