SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 17. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The national secretary general of the Canarian-PNC Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, has asked the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, to abandon “denialism” about a tax cut and has warned that without a tax cut “the impact of the crisis will be much harder for families, freelancers and small and medium-sized companies in the Canary Islands”.
The nationalist leader made this statement after a meeting with the president of the Industrial Association of the Canary Islands (Asinca), Virgilio Correa, and representatives of its Board of Directors to analyze the situation of the sector in the Islands due to the escalation in hydrocarbon prices, energy and raw materials.
Fernando Clavijo transferred to the industrialists the package of economic and fiscal measures transferred by the nationalists to the Government of the Canary Islands to curb the impact of the inflationary trend and the war in Ukraine, as well as measures to be promoted by the Autonomous Community.
Clavijo asked President Torres to carry out a fiscal adjustment that Spain has also announced and that Europe is studying and for which the Canary Islands “have sufficient room for manoeuvre”, given that “it is not only the least indebted Autonomous Community, but also has the 600 million euros that it left unexecuted last year and that could be used to alleviate the fiscal pressure on families and an economic and productive fabric that — he recalled — has not recovered from the blow of the pandemic”.
The situation of the transport sector was one of the issues addressed during the meeting, both due to the increase in transport costs for the sector which, according to Virgilio Correa, president of Asinca, is one of the handicaps for the sector “together with the costs and the increase in the prices of raw materials in the last 12-14 months”. Correa also showed, during the work meeting, his concern about the consequences of the state transport strike in the medium term in the Canary Islands.
