CC-PNC proposes tax checks for the self-employed and SMEs so that they can meet the tax obligations derived from the General Indirect Canary Tax (IGIC). They would be financed “with the remainder of 277 million euros” from the Cabildo budget. The nationalists point out as data to support their proposal that “42% of self-employed workers have liquidity problems”, according to the General Council of the Associations of Administrative Managers of Spain. The group’s spokesman, Carlos Alonso, explains that inflation “makes us have a richer Cabildo and must transfer that money to the sectors most affected by the crisis”
Alonso considers it “possible” to articulate a system of tax checks in favor of IGIC taxpayers that takes into account the economic situation, sector, size or employment. The measure can help the self-employed and micro-SMEs, “who have seen their costs increase extraordinarily due to inflation.” He recalls that 90% of the Canarian and Tenerife business fabric is made up of SMEs, micro-SMEs and the self-employed.
Alonso explains that the Cabildo must agree with the Government of the Canary Islands and raise it to the Canary Island Federation (FECAI), since the manager of the tax is the regional Executive. He appreciates that they are measures that have been put in place in countries like Portugal and Germany and he understands them to be more effective than aid from the Cabildo. “Tax checks can be distributed easily,” he stresses.
Aid for Covid-19
Carlos Alonso points out that “there are many self-employed workers and SMEs from Tenerife who have not yet received the Covid-19 aid from the Cabildo and the money must be sent to them as soon as possible.” Thus, he proposes “an agreement with the Chamber of Commerce, in such a way that aid can be distributed more quickly.”
42% of the self-employed have liquidity problems and 3% are no longer paying their payments: «We have a richer Cabildo, since the PSOE has not executed the budget in recent years and there are some 277 million euros in the accounts”.
Alonso sentences: “That money must be transferred to society, lower the price of public transport and start tax checks for SMEs, micro-SMEs and the self-employed.”
Canarian Coalition also demands a “real” Plan for the Elderly and criticizes that the PSOE wants to replace it “with the distribution of money among the municipalities.” Carlos Alonso recalls that “they have been abandoned for two years” and claims the disappeared Ansina program for activities aimed at this sector of the island’s population.
Alonso insists that “there is no policy for the elderly in Tenerife.” Apostille: “Now they are going to distribute money among the municipalities as if that were the solution, when it should be the Cabildo who executes the actions.” For Alonso, the PSOE “has deceived the elders of Tenerife.” In this regard, he argues that “the Ansina professionals were fired two years ago and they announced a comprehensive program.” Now, he adds, «they distribute a million euros for the municipalities to do it. In other words, they are a problem and they get rid of them by giving money to the municipalities”.
senior policies
The CC spokesman advocates that the Cabildo “be the driving mechanism of policies for the elderly.” Along these lines, Alonso proposes “recovering the program because it worked very well and adapted to the new times.” But, above all, because “they themselves are the ones who want Ansina.”
