PNV calls not to be "dragged" by the "chalaneo" of the fiscal debate with "crazy" reforms "for pure electoral interest"

Mediavilla believes "a volume and loin nonsense" the situation that "the solidarity tax" will cause in Euskadi and Navarra

BILBAO, 1 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The institutional head of the EBB of the PNV, Koldo Mediavilla, made an appeal this Saturday not to be "dragged" by the "chalaneo" of the "false" tax debates with "crazy" tax reforms "for pure electoral interest", and has urged to approach in Euskadi for a "fine surgery" of temporary retouching of the tax framework "to mitigate the suffering" of citizens in the face of the crisis. In addition, he believes the situation that the so-called "solidarity tax" will cause in the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarra "is a complete nonsense".

In an article on his blog entitled 'Fair Charlatans', collected by Europa Press, Mediavilla has pointed out that, for a long time, "any measure taken by representatives of the Government as well as the opposition was due to the pure electoral interest of those who sponsored it" .

"Neither the convulsive economic situation caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, nor the energy crisis derived from it, nor the crazy inflation, a threat to the well-being of thousands of families, deserved the joint effort of putting our shoulders to the wheel to try to mitigate the uncertainties and challenges that hovered over the whole of society", he pointed out.

On the contrary, "and to the derision of politics", he explained that in Spain "a crazy race was beginning to attract votes to the particular fishing grounds of those who today are the Government and the opposition." "And in this practice of electoral fishing, new fairground charlatans have appeared, promising gold and Moors, who have used the tax reduction as a decoy with which to obtain large profits at the polls," he stressed.

This is the case of Alberto Núñez Feijoó's PP, which has insisted on "the rattle of the tax reduction as a magic potion that will solve all problems." "The champion of this theory is the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has turned her territory into a 'land of opportunity' open to the establishment of large taxpayers encouraged by the absence of a wealth tax that taxes their wealth," he added.

Koldo Mediavilla has highlighted that, "such a 'paradise', as Ayuso herself has described her fiscal laxity, has served for years to attract capital that, in the heat of non-taxation, have sought a comfortable refuge."

"The let's say 'fiscal attractiveness' of the state capital has served for a few companies in the Basque Country to pack their bags for Madrid. According to the latest 'Study on changes of address' by Informa D

The Jeltzale leader recalled that, "Madrid's wake has been joined by the Andalusia of Moreno Bonilla, the second popular baron who, after his resounding electoral victory, has also decided to exempt his taxpayers from the Wealth Tax, having the audacity, and bad taste at the same time, to call on Catalan taxpayers to leave their land of origin and establish their assets in their community".

"The competition between regions began to attract flows, resources and investments in exchange for favorable tax treatment. As the spokesman for the Basque Government, Bingen Zupiria, correctly described, 'the fishing of the rich' was activated in a scenario of 'the last fool '" he lamented.

Mediavilla has indicated that, "to try to confuse the situation a little more", the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, mediated in the controversy to support "a tax recentralization".

"He asked to end the regional training to determine fiscal frameworks, something that perhaps could have some path in the communities of the common regime, but that was absolutely a 'casus belli' in the case of the territories protected by the historical foral rights, that is to say Euskadi and Navarra and the respective Economic Concert-Agreement", he warned.

After recalling that while the PSOE disavowed this proposal and United We Can "applauded and supported it", he stressed that, in parallel, the popular "continued with their string of tax reductions". "As in the fair of charlatans, the proposals followed one another. Murcia announced to follow in the footsteps of Madrid and Andalusia. Galicia, for its part, was committed to lowering the regional section of personal income tax. And Ximo Puig (PSOE), in the Valencian community sucked on the wheel" , has criticized.

In his opinion, "the squaring of the circle -in the hope that Cantabria, La Rioja, Canarias, Aragón or Castilla la Mancha join the bidding for the auction-- has been set by the Ministry of Finance which, instead of seeking solutions that calm the gibberish, has joined the scrum, inventing the possibility of a new tax formula that affects the same patrimonial subject".

"Throwing ideological literature at it, they have called it 'solidarity tax', although some wanted to baptize it with a resounding title of 'great fortunes'. The important thing is not the substance of the matter, but the story. The basics of the mess is who becomes defender of the 'poor' and who is the benefactor of the 'rich'", he said, to describe it as "regrettable".

Koldo Mediavilla has said that it is "a new tax invention -something already common-, but the strange explanations that Minister Montero has been providing point to a bis variant of the heritage tax that exists today".

The institutional head of the PNV has warned that there is a paradox that this tax figure should be arranged with Euskadi and Navarra. "And if this were done, as established by current legislation, the provincial territories would find themselves in the unprecedented situation, if their competent bodies regulated it, of applying two different regulations for identical subjects but for different amounts. A volume and loin nonsense ", he assured.

For this reason, he specified that "the vocation of the Basque institutions in the face of the general 'chalaneo' in which the false tax debate has become must be to maintain calm and seriousness, not allowing themselves to be dragged along by the mad race to modify taxes for pure electoral interest. "The taxation of a country is something very serious because the health of the entire public system depends on its sobriety," he said.

For this reason, he has advised "to make use of a 'fine surgery' that temporarily retouches the tax picture to mitigate the suffering caused by the rise in prices and the loss of purchasing power; sobriety and temperance that contrast with the behavior of so many charlatans of fair that is on the loose".