Cantabria and Navarra are also studying lowering the regional income tax, while Aragón and C-LM do not rule it out

MADRID, 28 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Cantabria and Navarra are studying applying tax reductions such as those that have already been announced by seven other regional executives -Andalusia, Madrid, the Valencian Community, Galicia, the Basque Country, Murcia and Castilla y León--, while the socialist governments of Aragon and Castilla- La Mancha does not close the door to income tax reductions to combat inflation.

The president of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig, was the first socialist 'baron' to announce yesterday a reduction in personal income tax in his community, at a time when several autonomies governed by the PP had already applied the reduction in this tax, as the leader of the 'popular', Alberto Núñez Feijóo, had asked the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.

After this, in the last hours, the executives of Javier Lambán and Emiliano García-Page have not ruled out continuing with the path of tax reductions, while the president of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, who also governs with the PSOE, will study this reduction of taxes because. "If the tide goes that way, we are not going to be left out," said the Cantabrian regionalist.

In the case of Navarra, the Executive of María Chivite is working with its partners in the legislature on an "extraordinary deduction" of personal income tax for income of less than 32,000 euros.

For their part, there are other regional governments, as is the case of the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, which have ruled out touching personal income tax and have been in favor of giving direct aid to the most affected sectors. Also in La Rioja they reject the tax reduction, while in Extremadura and Asturias they have charged against these tax reductions.

This is the situation in each autonomous community:

As announced by the Chairman of the Board, Juanma Moreno, the deflation of the first three sections of the regional IRPF rate by 4.3% will affect all taxpayers, although it will especially benefit the 82% who pay taxes within said first three sections. The measure enters into force retroactively to January 1, 2022, with which it will be reflected in the personal income tax return that is presented in the next financial year.

The Aragonese president, the socialist Javier Lambán, has also opened the door to join a tax reduction, admitting the "possibility" that taxation in his community can be changed if the four parties that make up the Government agree.

The Government of the Balearic Islands has hinted this Wednesday that it is currently ruling out a reduction in personal income tax and is more in favor of direct aid that allows "fine tuning and specifying" rather than deflating this income tax for individuals.

Something similar has happened in the Canary Islands, where its president, the socialist Ángel Víctor Torres, has ruled out adjusting personal income tax to inflation and has been in favor of applying deductions and direct aid to the lowest incomes, just as the autonomous community has been doing in the last three years.

The Government of Cantabria "is going to study doing something on the tax issue" and adopt some "palliative" tax reduction aimed at the lowest incomes and that could be done, although it is not certain, through the regional IRPF sections. "If the tide goes that way, we are not going to be left out," assured the regional president, Miguel Ángel Revilla.

The spokeswoman for the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, Blanca Fernández, has not closed the door to making any proposal on tax matters next week, during the Debate on the state of the Region, although she has clarified that, if there is, it will be "with a scalpel " and to help and provide liquidity to families.

For its part, the Junta de Castilla y León has approved the draft law on tax reductions in the Community, which will allow the lowering of the first tranche of personal income tax by 5.3 percent. Precisely, the autonomous secretary of the PSOE in the region, Luis Tudanca, has supported the implementation of tax cuts as long as they benefit the lowest incomes, while defending that he will not support "gifts to the rich".

The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés, has spoken this week about the tax announcements in other autonomous communities, warning that he will not participate in the "wild game" of lowering taxes on the highest incomes, because he considers that the bill for reducing the The tax burden on the richest 1% is paid by 99% of the population, according to him.

The president of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig, was the first socialist 'baron' to announce tax cuts through a reform in the region. One of these measures is a new autonomous personal income tax rate for 2022, with new sections adapted to inflation, aimed at taxpayers who earn less than 60,000 euros.

Meanwhile, the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara has also spoken about this tax debate, warning the communities that are announcing tax cuts that he will wait for them "with a smile" at the time the negotiation of the new financing model begins and they come demanding more resources.

The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, has advanced that his Executive will continue with its "own path" in fiscal policy. In this context, he has announced that personal income tax, in addition to lowering from 9.4 to 9% in the regional section, will suffer a new reduction in income of up to 35,000 euros with effect from January 1, 2022.

The Community of Madrid will also deflate by 4.1% the sections of the regional IRPF rate, with the aim of having effects in the Income Statement of the people of Madrid. The objective of this advance, which was scheduled to come into force in 2023, is that families can have "greater resources with which to face high inflation and the rise in energy, fuel or food prices."

In the case of Murcia, the Executive led by Fernando López Miras has already approved by decree law the reduction of the first four autonomic sections of personal income tax by 4.1%, a measure with which it plans to benefit 330,000 Murcians, achieving estimated total savings between 8.5 and 10 million euros.

The spokesperson for the Government of Navarra and Minister of Economy and Finance, Elma Saiz, has defended "surgical measures that have a very specific purpose" to "relieve" middle and low incomes, such as an "extraordinary deduction" of personal income tax for lower incomes of 32,000 euros that is currently being worked on with the members of the legislature.

The Basque Government, in which the PNV shares governance with the PSOE of Euskadi, has announced that it will return, as it did in July, to deflate all the sections of the IRPF rate. This, added to the one made at the beginning of the year, of 1.5%, will mean a total deflation of 5.5% by 2023. Of course, from the Basque Executive they make a call to "not mix Euskadi and Navarra " in the "battle" of taxation.

The Government of La Rioja rules out lowering personal income tax because, as they point out, the region is "one of the regions with the least fiscal pressure for medium and low incomes" and the communities that are proposing reductions in personal income tax "are doing what they already do "The Riojan Government. It is more, the Executive of Concha Andreu has reached an agreement with IU not to touch the taxes.