SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSOE Canary Islands considers that the inheritance and donation tax bonus, approved this Monday by the regional government, represents a “fiscal gift” to the high incomes of the archipelago that will only benefit “5% of the Canary Islands.”
He also affirms that this is a “contradictory” measure with his speech since it will mean failing to collect between 18 and 20 million euros at the same time that they affirm that they suffer “a budgetary insufficiency.”
The general secretary and president of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Ángel Víctor Torres, has also denounced in a note “the excuse” that Fernando Clavijo’s Executive is trying to articulate for not fulfilling its electoral commitment to lower the IGIC from 7 to 5 %, speaking of the fact that they have found an ‘economic hole’ in the Health area when it is common for there to be budgetary adjustments in all years.
“They are trying to intoxicate people to do something that they will not be able to achieve, and that is to deceive citizens again,” he said.
In his opinion, “the first fiscal measure that they have taken urgently with a decree law has not been to lower the IGIC for all the Canary Islands or to help families who are having a hard time, those who have fewer resources or those who have more economic needs, its first measure has been to benefit 5% of the Canary Islands, and that 5% are those who receive high inheritances.
Torres recalled that with the previous Government “a man or woman who received an inheritance of 300,000 euros and was an only child, paid absolutely nothing, not even two siblings, with a flat or land with up to 600,000 euros.”
However, he points out that CC and PP “now want to make people think” that “whoever inherited anything had to pay an inheritance or donation tax and that is flatly false.”
He has insisted that the modification approved this Monday “who benefits are people who receive high inheritances, high incomes”, since it is “a tax that logically taxes wealth.”
Instead, he pointed out, “What CC and PP have decided is, their first measure, to make a fiscal decision that benefits high incomes, the rich, with a cost of between approximately 18 and 20 million.” “Another contradiction,” she stressed, “because meanwhile they claim that there is a budgetary insufficiency.”
All this, furthermore, while they continue to incorporate senior positions into what is already “the most expensive Canary Islands government in history.”
According to Torres, “they said they came to slim down the administration and they already have 38 more positions and there are still appointments to be made.”
THE EYE-CATCHING ALIGNMENT OF CC AND VOX
The former Canary Islands president also confessed this Tuesday that he was surprised by the position adopted by the Canarian Coalition in the negotiations for the investiture of the new President of the Government, by placing itself in a “striking” way in the same place as Vox, a party that is against the self-government, the Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF) or the singularities of territories such as the Canary Islands.
“Although they say that they would never be in a government where Vox is, the reality is that there would be no Feijoó government without the support of Vox,” he noted.
