Mitxel Lakuntza has indicated that this change in the tax system will require “confronting the economic, business and employer powers”, something the Basque government “does not want to do”, he regretted. The march brought together about 2,000 people.
A trade union demonstration IF demanded this Saturday Bilbao A “radical” change of the tax system in Euskadi so that it is ‘fair’ and those who have the most pay more, and he has denounced the ‘subordination’ of the Basque institutions to the ‘economic power’.
The march left after 11:30 am from the Sacred Heart behind a banner with the text “Fiskalitatean ere, Madrid eredu? (In the field of taxation, is Madrid also an example? More taxes on capital, less tax fraud, more social rights.’
The demonstrators, numbering around 2,000 according to ELA, have marched along the city’s Gran Vía to demand “fair” tax reform from the provincial councils of Bizkaia, Álava and Gipuzkoa.
In statements to the media, ELA’s general secretary said: Mitxel Lakuntzahas criticized the policies of the Basque institutions, telling Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, that the problem is not that the resources are “finite”, but that these resources are “insufficient due to the budgetary policy implemented in this country”.
The union leader has indicated that it is three major problems in the Basque tax system: “Little is collected, it is done unfairly and tax fraud is allowed,” he stated.
He has indicated that ELA wants a “radical” change, from “top to bottom”, of the tax system and to do that, as he said, “we must face the forces of the economy, business and employers ”, something the Basque government said. The government “doesn’t want to do this,” he complained.
Lakuntza recalled that ELA demands, among other things, the establishment of a Minimum corporate tax rate of 25% that companies pay and a commitment to “inspect companies” to combat tax fraud.
As he has revealed, the ELA proposals go “in the opposite direction” of the tax reform deal reached between the PNV and the PSE-EE, which he has said is “a revision” that “simply proposes increasing the deduction and “Above all, do not touch the situation of those who have the most, the companies and the highest incomes.”
Lakuntza has denounced that “the Basque government and provincial councils are subordinate to economic power, the power of business and employers” and warned that the ELA will “resist this with all its might”.
“Tax justice”, also for Navarre
ELA demanded a change in tax policy on the streets of Pamplona on Friday, including in Navarra, because “it is very difficult to have social justice without tax justice,” Lakuntza said.
The demonstration was led by a banner with the slogan ’10 years of change… and taxation for when?’, as according to Lakuntza they are “very concerned” because, ten years after UPN emerged from the government of Navarre, “still its the laws it made in its time especially the laws that continue to function.”
Source: EITB
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