SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The economic spokesperson for Nueva Canarias (NC) in Parliament and first vice president of the Board, Esther González, confirmed this Wednesday that the Constitutional Court (TC) has admitted to processing the second unconstitutionality appeal filed by Parliament against State institutions for the violation of the procedures of the Statute and the Constitution on the reforms of the Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF), relative to the unilateral reduction of the fiscal differential of the audiovisual productions of the islands 80% higher than the one in force in the rest of the territory of the Condition.
The NC parliamentarian recalled that, on September 3, the plenary session of the Chamber unanimously decided to present lawsuits before the Constitutional Court against a law of the General Courts and a royal decree law of the state Executive.
The high court, on November 5, decided to process the appeal against a provision of the law on measures against tax fraud of the Cortes Generales and now, he added, has made the same decision with respect to the royal decree law on energy taxation .
Although the underlying issue, the differential in the deduction for investment in film productions made in the Canary Islands was resolved thanks to an agreement between NC and the PSOE through an amendment to a cultural law, Esther González maintained that it did not exempt the Canarian Legislature from adopting all possible measures to “safeguard” the rights of the islands “and to respect” the procedures covered by the Statute and the Constitution on the REF.
“We do not remain silent before the contempt and neglect of the state institutions with the Canary Islands and we begin to see the results,” stressed the leader of the progressive nationalist group.
First, he continued, because the Constitutional Court sees reasons to analyze the two lawsuits and secondly because the State Bar has requested an extension to present the allegations, which for the first vice president of the Table indicates the “solidity” of the unconstitutionality appeals. .
Third, he specified, because the General Courts and the Ministry of Finance “have already assumed that they are obliged” to request the mandatory report from Parliament before proceeding to modify the Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF), a procedure that has been followed. , assured Esther González, with the extraordinary plenary session of last Monday that pronounced, in a favorable way, the royal decree law that extends the registration period of the Canary Islands Special Zone (ZEC) and the anticipated investments of the Investment Reserve (RIC) until December 31, 2023.
In addition, on December 21, Parliament issued a positive report on the General State Budget law (PGE) for 2022, which includes the exclusion of the Canary Islands from the minimum taxation of 15% of Corporation tax thanks to the agreement reached, in the Congress of Deputies, by NC with the PSOE.
