The Government accelerates the 'startups' Law and takes it to a vote after agreeing changes with PP, Cs, ERC and PDeCAT

MADRID, 9 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

PSOE and United We Can have agreed with PP, Citizens, ERC and PDeCAT changes in the bill to promote the ecosystem of emerging companies, known as the 'startups' law, which is being processed in Congress and which this Wednesday will face your vote in the Committee on Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.

However, the processing of this rule will require a new debate, since Congress approved the approval of this initiative to the Plenary of the Lower House, which will have the last word before its approval and sending to the Senate.

The coalition Executive does not expect to find much resistance to it, since PP and Ciudadanos seem willing to endorse the approval, at least with abstention, of an eminently technical norm and demanded by formations on both sides of the parliamentary arch.

During the negotiation of the norm, the Government has accepted proposals from these formations, but also with ERC and PDeCAT. Likewise, changes proposed by the government formations have been introduced.

For example, a legal change to establish that it is the Tax Agency that verifies compliance and maintenance over time of the requirements that enable a startup to benefit from the tax benefits contemplated in the regulation.

On the other hand, the coalition partners have introduced another proposal, at the initiative of United We Can, to establish administrative silence in the authorization of Enisa (National Innovation Company) to recognize a company as a 'startup', once the term ends. of three months.

Another of the proposals included at the proposal of United We Can is the inclusion in the norm and in the contemplated tax benefits of cooperatives and companies of the so-called social economy.