He says that the Executive has also opted for a banking tax and “has not seen that the European Commission supports it”
MADRID, 14 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has differentiated this Wednesday the rate on energy companies that Europe is studying from the temporary tax on banking and energy companies promoted by the Government because, as he explained, Pedro Sánchez “is taxing the billing of a company, not profits.” In addition, he has warned that the Executive has also opted for this tax on financial entities that, for now, Brussels has not supported.
“It is putting a tax on the bank, which I have not seen that the European Commission supports it,” Feijóo assured in an interview in La Sexta, collected by Europa Press, when asked about the vote against the Popular Group in the Plenary of Congress this Tuesday to the proposal of PSOE and United We Can on taxes on banks and electricity companies.
The leader of the opposition considers that the government tax does not seek to lower the receipt of the citizens but rather to increase the collection of the State. “He is not putting a tax on profits but a tax on billing,” he has proclaimed, to make it clear that this tax is something “absolutely different” from what the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has proposed.
“We are talking about taxing electricity and energy companies. It is the only coincidence,” said Feijóo, who has warned that he does not know “any tax expert” who does not warn them that if the Government does not modify its tax, “probably it will the energy companies win in the event that they challenge it”. “And he will have to pay it and return it to the next government,” he added.
The leader of the PP has made an effort to explain the differences between what Brussels proposes and what the Government proposes because, in his opinion, Pedro Sánchez is not “taxing profits, but what companies bill”.
“The objective of the measure for us is to lower electricity bills for people with lower incomes and the objective of the Government is not that, but to collect money so that later it distributes what it considers appropriate. And they are totally different things” , has manifested.
In addition, he has flatly rejected that there has been a debate on this matter within the Popular Party. He has also said that the PP could not support the PSOE and Podemos proposal because they have “serious doubts that it will prosper in court.”
