The Treasury asks the communities that lower taxes to be consistent if they later ask for more resources

MADRID, 28 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, has asked the autonomous communities that propose tax reductions "to be consistent with their questions and requests", since "the vast majority ask the Government for more resources that come from the same bag of taxes".

Also with the European Union, he has commented in statements before the media in the corridors of Congress, attending to the receipt of 140,000 million from the Recovery Plan. "It is incoherent that the headlines that are carried out from Spain are about tax cuts," said Montero.

Montero has stressed that "a massive tax cut is not a recommendation" to deal with the current energy and price crisis, according to the European Central Bank, the European Commission, the IMF or the OECD, and that, in any case, these cuts "be surgical, selective, protect the most vulnerable citizens" and "that those who have more, contribute more".

The head of the Treasury has rejected a "tax reduction spiral", even acknowledging that "it is not good with some taxes more than with others", since the Wealth Tax on which total exemptions have been announced in several communities governed by the PP, following in the footsteps of Madrid, "is paid by only 0.2% of the population."

Thus, he has defended that "the country needs an important" and "calm" debate on its tax system, claiming the need to "contribute to social justice but also to economic efficiency": "It is not about creating large elites that have much, but to make a resistant society that, in the face of the onslaught of the economy, has the capacity to consume and protect income. That the economy does not decline", he argued.

In addition to recalling that access to the University or a surgical intervention "cannot be afforded" by a large part of the population, he has defended that "the tax system is the glue of society as a whole, where each one contributes according to their capacity " and allows "to guarantee the implementation of the constitutional pact", guaranteeing the rights to health, education or housing.

The discussion about tax cuts has intensified in the political debate since the announcement last week by the Andalusian Government to abolish the application of the Wealth Tax, applied only to large fortunes, following in the wake of Madrid.

Since then, several communities such as Galicia or Murcia have advanced measures along these lines, the latest being the Valencian Community, which is governed by the PSOE, Podemos and Compromís, which has announced the reduction of the IPRF to the sections applied to incomes below 60,000 euros.

This week the Minister of Finance, who has already announced a new tax on large assets, has assured that the Government was preparing a new package of fiscal measures that they would present in the coming days.

Despite the fact that these measures were expected for this week -the PSOE's parliamentary spokesman, Patxi López, came to date his presentation for this same Thursday-- the Treasury clarifies that the intention is to wait for these measures to reach the agreement between PSOE and United We Can for the new Budgets. While from the socialist wing they assure that the new accounts will see the light "very soon", in the confederal group they assure to be "far" from the agreement.