The Ministry of Economy advances with the ‘comuns’, but will meet with the PSC this week
It is not on the table to abolish the heritage tax or reform successions -as Junts defends-, but it is to add the tax on cruise ships
To the PSC it is costing him that the Minister of Economy, James Girosquare the agenda, but the approach is that the meeting to address 2023 budgets with the main opposition party to take place this week and to take place away from the media spotlight. “We want to know if they are serious,” insist the Socialists, who have requested the meeting despite the fact that the ‘president’ Pere Aragones he refuses to approve them with his support and that the ‘commons’ have weeks ahead of them in the talks.
With the spending ceiling approved -33,000 million-, the forecast is that the fiscal folder will not be touched. The Government does not foresee that the wealth tax will be eliminated or that the inheritance tax will be reformed, as Junts approved in its congress in July, only that the new cruise ship levy finalized by the Ministry of Climate Action.
Economy is reluctant to advance details of the master lines of the accounts. Giró wants to approve them, as he stated in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, around October 20 so that they can enter into force on January 1. “Negotiations are beginning and there are no indications of any kind,” say sources from the ‘ministry’. But there are red lines marked by the ‘president’. “Touch the tax file is not on the table“, they insist from the Aragonès environment, which has already publicly opposed the postulates approved by the party of Laura Borras Y Jordi Turull in his conclave. It is the philosophy that the ‘commons’ expect to be maintained.
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The formation of Jessica Albiach, who met both last week and this week with Giró, understands that the midpoint between tightening the nuts more on high incomes, as they would like, and what Junts defends is in don’t touch anything and maintain the fiscal reforms already approved in the last three years. The main ones were the increase in personal income tax for incomes above 90,000 euros in those of 2020 and the reduction of that of low incomes in the budgets in force today. The tax on cruise ships, one of the battle horses of Ada Colau in Barcelona, it is the trophy they intend to exhibit this time.
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Socialists also consider that “it’s not time” to make changes in this matter. His ambition is focused on guarantee a spot in the negotiating geometry of the Government. They have not even set preconditions to break through in parliamentary arithmetic. Giró has publicly included them together with the ‘comuns’ and the CUP as “possible partners” and although the ‘ministry’ admits that meeting with them does not necessarily mean that they are a priority, it does offer them some pampering.
“What a minority government should do is try to agree on them with whoever you can and that is the least expensive possible”, he has dropped. The entry onto the scene of the socialists has activated the alerts in CKD and it has also caused concern in the ‘comuns’, who do not want to lose the negotiating strength of their eight deputies. Last year, if Colau was able to approve the Barcelona accounts hand in hand with the Republicans, it was precisely in exchange for guaranteeing those of the Generalitat.