The government partners are at loggerheads on several issues, and the investment bloc partners are already considering whether the project will remain solely on a new 15% minimum tax for multinational companies. The Finance Committee has been postponed until Monday.
The tax reform with which the Spanish government wants to expand the bank tax and abolish the tax on energy companies, continues without adding sufficient support in Congress, so the PSOE had to do that cancel for the second time this week Congressional Committee on Finance in which the project is to be discussed.
The government partners disagree on several points, and the investiture bloc partners are already considering whether to continue with the project alone in a new guise. Minimum tax of 15% for multinational companies.
Hours before this budget package is discussed in the Congressional Finance Commission, Esquerra Republicana (ERC) and EH Bildu have put forward the idea that the rule is limited exclusively to the tax on multinationals, resulting from the transposition of a European directive, for the difficulties agree the future of banking and energy taxes.
And that’s it, while Together has agreed with the PSOE to abolish the tax on energy companies, ERC, EH Bildu and Podemos demand the sustainability of this tax and have placed it as a red line in the negotiations. At the same time, the PNV has indicated that it does not accept the idea of Sumar and the socialists to tax private health care.
“I believe that the base coming from Brussels is minimal and maybe it would be good if it comes out, but we will see,” the spokesperson said. C.K.D in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, on the ongoing negotiations on this tax reform.
For her part, the spokesperson said EH Bildu In the House of Representatives, Mertxe Aizpurua has said that his party will try “until the last moment” to reach an agreement on the extension of the tax on energy companies, but he has conceded the possibility of approving only the tax on multinationals to boost the economy to ‘save’. negotiation. “It could be a solution,” he says.
Also the spokesperson for PNV, Aitor Estan does not rule out that the budget package is only limited to the tax that Brussels demands. “It may be the simplest thing,” he said in the halls of Congress on Wednesday.
Hours for the committee, the PP It has expressed openness to supporting the government’s text as long as it adheres to the global minimum tax to combat hydrocarbon fraud and as long as no new taxes are added. The goal “must be to approve what has been agreed in Brussels with all countries,” the party’s economic spokesman Juan Bravo said in X.
For his part, the spokesperson said PSOE, Patxi López has stressed that negotiations are taking place “until the last minute” to allow the government project to proceed.
Meanwhile, the newly minted spokesperson said of Add, Verónica Martínez has emphasized that her group is “continually working on the agreement.” “We will not abandon the idea that an agreement can be reached until the last minute,” he concluded.
If the PP’s demands were met, the text would pass parliamentary scrutiny without any inconvenience, regardless of what the rest of the groups vote, but it would not include the tax reform that the government wanted due to the impossibility of including all parties on to bring one line. reached an agreement on banking and energy taxes, so the socialists have decided to wait.
Source: EITB
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