SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 24. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The deputies of the Canarian Nationalist Group Nieves Lady Barreto and Narvay Quintero presented today, Friday, a Non-Legal Proposal by which they propose the modification of Law 5/1986 of the Special Tax of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands on fuels derived from petroleum, which allows reduce the price on the islands of La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro.
“If the economic situation is worrying throughout the Canary Islands, affecting the productive sectors, transport, the shopping basket, it is much more serious in the Green Islands, where the well-being and development of its population is being weighed down,” they pointed out
They explained that with the modification of article 10 of this law “we exempt the tax, which supposes between 22 and 26 cents per liter that must have a direct impact on consumers.” For the deputies, “this is a decision that can be taken; the State has already established a direct aid of 20 cents.”
According to the nationalists, “although it is true that it must be recognized that even with this aid, the Green Islands will continue to suffer from a burdensome differential on fuel for which a definitive solution must be found, but while it arrives we have to respond to those families and companies that feel drowned by such a high cost”.
Since the last Legislature, from the Canarian Nationalist Group we have been looking for a solution to this structural problem, which “does not happen, as the Government says, by promoting competition, because that strategy cannot be applied in these islands with the unique characteristics they own”.
“The current government has talked a lot but has done little and the exemption from this tax means 8 million euros for the regional public coffers, a totally affordable amount with a vital effect for the economic sustainability of these three islands, which cannot afford the liter at 1.92 euros in El Hierro, or 2 euros in some points of La Palma”, they affirmed.
