The PSOE says that the Government will approve its fiscal measures on Thursday and will not "play deflation"

Patxi López acknowledges that he does not like "downward competitions" in tax matters

MADRID, 27 Sep. (EUROA PRESS) -

The spokesman for the Socialist Group in Congress, Patxi López, has avoided commenting this Tuesday on the decision of the Valencian president, the socialist Ximo Puig, to deflate personal income tax for incomes below 60,000 euros, but has made it clear that the Government does not It is going to "play deflation" and has referred to the new fiscal measures that, according to what it has advanced, the Treasury will make public on Thursday.

"The Government, rather than play deflation, wants to allocate resources where they are most needed," López said at a press conference in Congress, emphasizing that what he is going to support the PSOE is the fiscal proposal in which the coalition Executive works to "help the lowest incomes".

Asked if the Socialist Group continues to maintain, as it defended last week in a parliamentary debate, that the deflation of personal income tax is a "regressive" measure, López indicated that "everything depends on how it is done", but stressing that the one defended by the PP is "absolutely regressive".

After admitting that he does not "like downward competitions very much", the spokesman for the majority group has stressed that it is convenient not to "recentralize", but to "harmonize" taxes and act with "fiscal co-responsibility" without "entering in competitions that lead to proposals for fiscal dumping".

"That will be at the epicenter of the Government's proposal," he added, in addition to stressing that the Executive's intention is that "those who have the most contribute more" in order to finance policies aimed at "protecting the most vulnerable and the economy productive".

And it is that, according to López, the PP's thesis that "money is best in the pockets of Spaniards" is "an absolute fallacy" since there must also be money in public coffers to finance the welfare state and "ensure that no one has to be a slave to necessity" and everyone has "their basic needs met."

On the other hand, López has shown himself to be convinced that, despite the "scrambles" and "stakes" that exist in any negotiation, the two government parties will reach an agreement on the General State Budgets for 2023, because they are the law that will serve to finance the bulk of the measures launched by the Government to alleviate the consequences of the crisis.