MADRID, 20 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, stated this Tuesday that the Executive is going to maintain the extraordinary taxes on banks and energy companies and leave them as “fixed” within the Spanish tax model.
“They are taxes that we are going to maintain, but we have to do so in terms of fixed taxes that require the participation of all the political groups with which we are beginning to work,” Montero said in statements to SER reported by Europa Press. .
The vice president has defended that the purpose of these taxes for the political formations that make up the Government is to give them continuity, but she has insisted that an agreement will have to be reached with all political forces “so that the taxes that are extended for this year remain stable during the following years”.
In the case of the tax on energy companies, Montero recalled that there is a commitment to allow the investment to be taken into account when paying the tax to achieve the electrification of the networks, “which is a very important challenge that is being working hand in hand with Ecological Transition”.
Asked if the 2024 General State Budgets (PGE) can finally be carried out, the first vice president stressed that the Ministry of Finance is working “intensely” with all political groups so that the planned calendar can be met “and have a budget agreed upon in time and form”.
“That is the hypothesis on which we operate and that is on which the Government is working. This is a silent work, but very intense, absolutely intense, but it also gives you a global perspective of what all the forces policies they want to achieve in the legislature,” he noted.
