SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 8 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Canarian Nationalist Group has sent the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, a document containing measures to improve the Budget of the Autonomous Community so that “the evident increase in funds goes directly to alleviate the economy of families, companies and productive sectors whose financial sustainability is faltering due to the general rise in prices”.
According to José Miguel Barragán and Rosa Dávila, who offered a press conference explaining the contents of the proposal, “we want the Budget Law for 2023 to be the most effective tool possible for this moment of uncertainty, a useful tool in which the citizenship is reflected”
“It is incomprehensible that the government, in these three years, has closed its budgets with a surplus, collects more than ever due to inflation and has debt capacity and does not reverse these conditions in those who are suffocated by inflation,” Dávila said.
In this sense, Barragán wondered if the Government “would be willing to enter into a dialogue and seek consensus on the measures that are missing to make this budget for 2023 an opportunity for the citizenry as a whole or we will find ourselves again with an action unilateral decision of the Canarian Executive to deal with these circumstances”.
In the opinion of the nationalist representatives, the actions that are missing from the Bill have to do with essential public services (housing, employment, health, social policies), fiscal measures against inflation, direct aid, a multi-year plan for the recovery of La Palma, reform and modernization of the Public Administration, public employment, assumption of the competence of Coasts and insularized needs; “all of them should be included in the 2023 Budget.”
In Social Services, it is proposed to carry out a structural action to address the reduction of health waiting lists, the revision of the prices paid to operators in the social services sector; improve contributions in dependency, bonuses to people with dependents in their care and financing of respite programs for caregivers of dependent people
In Education, it is proposed to promote the Plan for the Promotion of Foreign Languages (PILE), the Plan for the Promotion and Adaptation of Professional Training and to increase the financing of the Canary Islands Public Universities. In Housing, the concession of public land for the construction of houses for vulnerable families and the young population; and training and professional qualification adapted to the Canarian economic fabric
TAX RELIEF
Regarding the announced tax relief, CC-PNC-AHI proposes a 1% reduction in the regional section of personal income tax for families in the Canary Islands in the first four sections, deflation of personal income tax rates in accordance with the real evolution of prices from 2020, update of deductions and new personal income tax deductions aimed at compensating the extra cost of the ultraperiphery and double insularity for people who have incomes of less than 42,900 euros, if the declaration is individual, or less than 57,200 if it is made individually. joint form.
Within the framework of the IGIC, the expansion of the Special Scheme for Small and Medium Entrepreneurs and Professionals (REPEP) is established. The REPEP must be extended to those who invoice up to 50,000 euros per year. Enrollment in said Scheme must be possible throughout the year; the reduction of the general IGIC rates from 7% to 5% during the years 2023 and 2.75% the reduced rate; the application of type 0 for the production, transportation and distribution of electricity, gas, steam and hot water (which at this time is 3%).
They also propose the application of type 0 for the transport of passengers and public service goods by land; exempt companies in the primary sector, which have a zero rate, from advancing the IGIC to the Government of the Canary Islands; the application of type 0 of the IGIC to deliveries of electrical energy made by marketers to consumers, regardless of whether it is a natural or legal person and the contracted power; the application of the cash principle. Special regime of the cash criterion for the IGIC. The Tax will accrue at the time of total or partial collection of the price for the amounts actually received.
In agricultural, forestry and livestock activities, the CC-PNC-AHI insists on the modification of Law 5/1986, of July 28, on the Special Tax of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, on fuels derived from petroleum -with effect from the 1st of January 2023- to include among the exemptions the delivery of fuels to wholesalers whose consumption is carried out in the area of the green islands (La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro).
They also propose the maintenance of the refund of 100% of the Canary Islands Special Tax on fuels used by carriers as fuel in vehicles intended for the transport of goods and passengers, and that used as fuel by farmers in vehicles. , artifacts and machinery used for agricultural, forestry or livestock exploitation; and the extension of the refund of 100% of the quota of the Special Tax of the Community on Fuels Derived from Petroleum used in industrial and agro-industrial activities.
DIRECT AID
Direct aid focuses on specific aid for SMEs and the self-employed, for companies that support young entrepreneurs, as a way to retain talent and generate youth employment, a specific help line for SMEs and the self-employed or for energy costs, expansion of the item for young ranchers and farmers and expansion of the item for fishing renewal and expansion of the items for agricultural irrigation.
In the Public Administration section, advance in the modernization, stabilization of public employment and promote negotiations with the unions to agree, in the first quarter of 2023, on objectives and a calendar that allow recovering 5% of remuneration in the public companies, development of the professional career in the General Administration, return 100% of the additional pay of health professionals, improve the organization and personnel in the General Directorate of Public Health and the organization necessary to assume the competencies in matters of Costs
The Palm
In reference to the recovery of La Palma, the deputies of the Canarian Nationalist Group insisted, in addition to the need to define a five-year multi-year Plan, to address, among others, the collaboration with the College of Psychologists and the Association of Mental Health of La Palma, the recovery of the banana farms under the lava, planning of the conditions and payment of the lost properties, not covered by the insurance consortium.
Finally, the document delivered today includes measures for each of the islands, to La Palma is added the insular Palace of Congresses, in La Gomera; the educational complex and sports city of El Hierro; the medicalized helicopter based in Fuerteventura; the access and parking of the José Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote; the warehouse for fishermen’s supplies and renovation of pontoons in the port of Caleta de Sebo, La Graciosa; the Nautical-Fishing Center of San Cristóbal in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; the second phase of the Landscape Corridor, which would link Telde with Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; and investments and material and human resources necessary for the start-up of Hospitals in the North and South of Tenerife in investments in the HUC and HUNSC.
