SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 2 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Canarian Vice President and Minister of Finance, Budgets and European Affairs, Román Rodríguez, signed last Thursday the order that extends the term of certain tax relief measures for entrepreneurs and self-employed workers of La Palma until June 30.
The expansion responds to the demands raised by the palm business federations, according to Rodríguez, who recalled that the tax figures covered by the order are the IGIC and the AIEM.
The order, which will come into force retroactively to April 1, allows the presentation of self-assessments corresponding to the first quarter of 2022 until June 30, when under normal conditions they should have been presented until April 20.
Rodríguez stressed that the expansion will provide liquidity to palm oil companies and freelancers, since they have already collected the IGIC but will not have to make the declarations until the middle of the year, while the situation normalizes and all the aid committed by the the administrations.
The order signed by the counselor is part of the broad package activated by the Treasury to alleviate the tax burden of palm taxpayers and, especially, those affected by the volcanic eruption.
In addition to the extensions of the term, there are also two decree-laws on exceptional tax measures for the reconstruction of homes, both on rural and urban land, which relieve the fiscal pressure for the victims, with the practical elimination of taxes.
The vice president insisted on the relevance of these specific and “surgical” fiscal relief measures, in the face of generalized tax cuts, “that the only thing they produce is a bankruptcy of fundamental public services and of the Welfare State.”