The PP does not rule out taking the tax on large fortunes to the TC: "Let's study it"

MADRID, 1 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the Popular Group in Congress, Carlos Rojas, has transferred this Saturday that the PP does not rule out going to the Constitutional Court for the tax on fortunes of more than three million euros announced by the Ministry of Finance.

The Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, announced on Thursday that the new tax on large fortunes will be levied on net wealth of more than three million euros, while capital income will be taxed more in personal income tax from 200,000 euros. Likewise, she will reduce the IRPF for income from work below 21,000 euros.

"We are going to study it well," Rojas said in statements given to RNE, after being questioned as to whether the PP plans to take the so-called 'solidarity tax' to the Constitutional or will ask the autonomous communities governed by the 'popular'.

Rojas has been very critical of the fiscal measures announced by the Government to alleviate the rise in food or energy prices, stressing that they cause "uncertainty" and promote "legal insecurity", which can slow down investments. "Taxes that are continually invented do not create the best investment climate," he added.

In addition, he considers that the fiscal package "does not alleviate the problems of the middle class" and constitutes a tax increase for many taxpayers and a "minimal relief" for the beneficiaries.

In the same way, he has criticized that the Government presents its "insufficient" measures "without any type of consensus". "Instead of consensus, he attacks the opposition and presents plans on his own", he added, assuring that they are "very poorly organized" and appear "unexpectedly".

For this reason, he has defended the need for a State pact in the face of the "very complicated" situation in Spain and has insisted that the plans of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, are aimed at "everyone pitching in". "The Government continues to refuse to accept the proposals of the PP to deflate personal income tax and lower VAT on basic products," he lamented, before stressing that these measures "would have immediate effect."

Along these lines, he has criticized the conception of the PSOE's welfare state and has insisted that it is about "helping families when there are problems". In his opinion, this state "does not appear" and, on the contrary, "a very radical government appears."