SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The liquid collection of taxes managed by the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands until November 30 stood at 2,082 million euros, while the amount consigned in the Budget Law for the same concepts is 2,201 million, which represents a 94.5% of what was budgeted.
Regarding the REF taxes, the collection until last November 30 was 1,362.4 million euros, while the Budgets for 2021 were drawn up with a forecast of income of 1,536 million euros in this chapter.
The Canarian Vice President and Minister of Finance, Budgets and European Affairs, Román Rodríguez, stressed that the data show the “prudence and realism” with which the Executive draws up the accounts, “which has happened in the two previous Budgets and that It will also happen with the bill to be approved this week by the Parliament of the Canary Islands. “
Rodríguez highlighted that the collection actually obtained up to November already represents 94.6% of the amount consigned in the regional accounts for the entire year. “These data leave without arguments those who base their only criticisms of the Budgets on a hypothetical overestimation of income, without taking into account that the calculations are carried out methodically and scientifically by experts in the field,” he stressed.
The vice president recalled, in this sense, that the year 2019 -a pre-pandemic year and without problems in the Canary Islands economy- raised 93.5% of what it had budgeted for. “That is to say, that year there was a greater deviation than the one that will occur this year, despite the uncertainties generated by the Covid and that makes the forecasting task difficult.”
Rodríguez indicated that it is a good sign that tax revenues are recovering their vigor, although he said that “we must remain vigilant because as long as the virus continues to be present in our lives, any forecast will be subject to pandemic evolution,” he said.