In this way, the finance minister has responded to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has assured that from the beginning of the Spanish government it was the intention to adapt the tax to the characteristics of Brussels.
The Minister of Finance, Mary Jesus Monteroassured this Thursday that the government of Spain is going to adjust the extraordinary tax on energy to the fiscal “figure” adopted in the European Union once agreed upon.
During an interview in Antenna 3Montero has defended that “there has never been a controversy between Spain and Europe”, but that Spain took the “initiative” of this tax and that the intention from the start was to adapt to the European tax as soon as it was established.
This is how the minister reacted to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez feijoowho has been willing to support the new energy surcharge if it is equated with the European proposal -the Spanish taxes on income and the European, the extraordinary profits-.
“Mr Feijóo, before he knew the technical form in which we would offer this tax, had already opposed it,” he said, and now “his party colleagues approve a tax on extraordinary profits (of energy companies), has no other choice.” then change position.
In addition, Montero has assured that the government is working on a regulatory change so that the communal boilers “They can take advantage of the series of measures that will make it possible to reduce the bill” for gas, a measure that will be known when the contingency plan is presented, although it is not detailed whether it will include a reduction in VAT to 5. %, same as for individual users.
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Source: EITB
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