PSOE and NC-BC undermine the Government’s complaints for designing the accounts and remember that the scenario is similar to that of 2019
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Finance of the Government of the Canary Islands, Matilde Asián, reproached the central government this Wednesday for not having “administrative collaboration” and for not bringing together the autonomous communities to set the spending ceiling, payments on account and clarify the spending rules. so that they can prepare their respective autonomous accounts.
“The State cannot prepare the General State Budgets but nothing prevents meeting with the communities to inform us of the magnitudes,” he indicated, emphasizing that this scenario increases “uncertainty” in a context of national political “instability” and with growing “downward” next year because the inflationary trend, financial restrictions and a possible decline in tourism continue if the economies of the issuing countries go into recession.
The counselor commented that the forecasts of the Ministry of Economy warn that, in the “pessimistic scenario”, the pre-pandemic GDP will not yet be recovered in 2024 and the years 2025 and 2026 “may be complicated.”
He has indicated that although the preparation of the budget “is underway” they will wait until the closing of the autumn forecasts to begin to set the income and has made it clear that the Canary Islands should not finance public services with funds that are not from the financing system. “REF resources should not be used for essential services,” she said.
He has also expressed his desire that there will be a “fair tax policy” based on “relieving the tax pressure” on citizens, which mainly involves “fighting the underground economy” so that there are more people “paying” and therefore increases collection by lowering the fiscal effort.
In that sense, he has commented that the IGIC is “regressive” because it taxes consumption, and affects vulnerable families the most. “We are going to lower it as soon as we can because it is within normality, it was raised for a specific need and what sense does it make to continue with the collection record,” he added.
The spokesman for the Nationalist Group, José Miguel Barragán, has warned that Spain will have to face a reduction of 9,000 million in the 2024 PGE if the new fiscal rules are met, which is why he has advanced that “a part of the adjustment” will be It is going to burden the city councils and the autonomous communities.
CC: THERE IS STRUCTURAL EXPENDITURE COMMITTED TO EUROPEAN FUNDS
He has said that it is likely that some items will have to be “frozen” due to the difficulties in ‘balancing the numbers’ and has warned that there is “structural spending” committed to health and education with spending from European funds.
Raúl Acosta (AHI) has said that it is “fundamental” that there be budgets despite the “uncertainties” in order to guarantee the provision of economic services, and although they are not “perfect”, he understands that they must be the “best” possible in the current situation.
Melodie Mendoza (ASG) has admitted that there are “serious problems” in the EU, “national political instability” and an incipient “slowdown”, something that will impact the preparation of budgets, but she has demanded that Asia must ” “fight” so that the Canary Islands do not lose a single economic resource, that the REF is complied with in its entirety and recover lost items and agreements.
Javier Nieto (Vox) has said that he is “very concerned” about the drop in income of Canarian families and the difficulties in maintaining the welfare state, asking the Government to end the “confiscatory policy” of taxes that borders on “extortion.”
Esther González (NC-BC) has criticized the “ambiguity” of the counselor and her “complaints” about having to prepare a budget with little information, something that already happened with the 2020 accounts, designed “blindly.”
NC-BC ALERT THAT THE LOWER IN IGIC AFFECTS LOCAL CORPORATIONS
For this reason, he has insisted that there must be “prudence” with the accounts in a context of “normality” of the financial stability law and if the decision to lower the IGIC to 5% next year is maintained, something that will affect the local corporations.
Fernando Enseñat (PP) has valued the Government’s “commitment” to making budgets despite the fact that “it is not going to be easy” due to national and international uncertainty and the “signs of cooling” in the economy.
He has warned that the central government “does not fulfill its obligations” by not setting the spending ceiling or payments on account and regarding the 2023 Canary Islands budget, he has indicated that imbalances must be “covered”, such as the 550 million in the Health area.
Manuel Hernández, from the Socialist Group, has commented that Asián arrives at the department with accounts managed “rigorously, less debt and a progressive tax structure” and although there are “enormous uncertainties” for next year, it already occurred in 2019 “and there were some very good budgets in the Canary Islands with a clear social vocation”.
He pointed out that the recovery of the fiscal rules “were known to everyone” since March “except for some representatives of the PP” and has asked the counselor to “get to work now” on preparing the accounts.
