Two weeks. It is the time in which both the PSC and the ‘communs’ demand that it be closed an agreement for the budgets of the Generalitat. In other words, just before they are approved by the Executive Council, whose calendar provides, if there are no changes, that this process will take place at the beginning of December. However, while since last Friday the negotiation has been underway with the group of Jessica Albiach, there is still no approximation of the Government neither with the socialists nor with Junts. One of the two will be necessary for there to be new accounts in 2023, a year that will start, at least, with one extension of a technical nature that will last more or less depending on when an eventual agreement is sealed.
The tax folder It will be key to the outcome. In these moments, the ‘president’ Pere Aragones He is in favor of not opening this Pandora’s box because, beyond the already planned environmental taxes, he understands that “stability” is the midpoint between the rise in high incomes that the ‘communs’ demand and the reduction that Junts demands. The Socialists, who actively and passively insist that they do not yet have enough information to make their proposals and enter fully into the negotiation, they also do not welcome the tax increase defended by the ‘communs’ and, like the Government, they are in favor of not making tax changes.
Catalunya en Comú rebounded against this position on Monday, directly accusing the party of Salvador Illa of being “less ambitious” in this matter than the PSOE itself. “contradict the policies that are being carried out by the Government, which has approved a tax on large fortunes”, said the spokesman for the ‘comuns’ and deputy in Congress, Joan Mena. However, this criticism has not moved the PSC one iota, which has responded by practically ignoring the criticism. “We respect the positions of other parties”, has settled the spokeswoman, Elia Tortolero.
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Junts, for its part, plans to send its proposals this week after receiving more detailed information in recent days. This was explained by the general secretary of the formation, Jordi Turullwho in an interview on TV-3 has defended that the “fiscal spoliation suffered by Catalonia by the State does not have to be fixed by tightening the screws on the Catalans with taxes.”
The ‘communs’ have proposed the so-called solidarity tax to adjust upward the personal income tax for income of more than 120,000 euros and increase that of assets and that of empty flats, in addition to a “rescue” to the public health system and more commitment to invest in public rental housing and promote renewable energy.