MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSOE, United We Can, ERC and EH-Bildu have ruled out this Wednesday in Congress the tax reductions proposed by the PP, accusing him of seeking with them a decrease in income to weaken public services.
“That is the model: cut, cut and cut the public to deprive the working class of everything”, said Sonia Guerra (PSOE), while Joan Capdevila (ERC) has accused them of wanting to “decapitalize public coffers”. “They come disguised as Robin Hood, but their methods and results are already known to them,” he said, showing his support for extending the tax reductions in electricity bills.
All this in the debate of a motion as a result of the urgent interpellation addressed to the Vice President of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, in the control session of the Government last week in Congress.
In his defense, the ‘popular’ deputy Mario Garcés has ironized with the initial rejection of the Treasury to lower taxes, to end up lowering personal income tax in its fiscal plan, announced the reductions of autonomous presidents of the PSOE and the refusal to extend a deflation approved in Country Basque, where they are part of the Government. “The PSOE is fixed discontinuous”, Garcés has ironized, explaining these “paradoxes” in that his interest in the tax reduction is “pure electoralism”.
Vox and Ciudadanos have supported the proposal, although the former have emphasized the “irony” that the PP champions VAT tax cuts after having raised it themselves, and Ciudadanos has done the same, but with the deflation of personal income tax, since it is a measure proposed first by them.
Idoia Sagastizabal, from the PNV, has supported deflation, but not other reductions that, she has defended, must be “temporary, selective, progressive” and have the “maximum consensus”, and not as part of “a crazy race” on taxation in which, he considers, the Government of PSOE and United We Can also participate.
In addition to the deflation of personal income tax, the extension of tax rebates for electricity and gas and the reduction of VAT on basic products, the PP proposes updating the condition of vulnerability in the code of good banking practices, in dialogue with the sector.
Txema Guijarro, from United We Can, has ridiculed the possibility of agreeing with the bank on a code, which is also voluntary, staging the failed dialogue as if the famous humorist Miguel Gila had tried it: “Who does not agree to sacrifice a little profit? Well, don’t worry, we’ve already talked. Goodbye, very good,” he said.
