SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The deputies of the Canarian Nationalist Group, Nieves Lady Barreto and Narvay Quintero, denounced this Friday that the Government of the Canary Islands “blocks” tax initiatives, such as the exemption from fuel tax on the green islands, “which would allow families and companies cope with inflation.
The Government Council of the Canary Islands made public this Thursday that it does not endorse the CC-PNC-AHI proposal to reduce the fuel tax in the ‘green islands’ based on two reports from the Treasury area and legal services.
“This decision is incomprehensible because the law itself allows the exemption in each of the islands,” Quintero said in a note released by his group.
Along these lines, he indicated that they only ask the Government for “willingness to work, dialogue and reach a consensus, and with this decision what the Executive of Ángel Víctor Torres does is deprive the Autonomous Chamber of the debate.”
For Nieves Lady Barreto, “it is incomprehensible that given the Government’s announcements of having more resources than ever, of having historical budgets, they do not seek a solution to the situation of the increase in fuel prices, in La Gomera, La Palma and The iron”.
Now prices have slowed down a bit thanks to the State subsidy, but “they are still higher than before the start of the crisis with respect to Tenerife, for example.”
From the Canarian Nationalist Group, the Government is urged “to take measures to address this situation and it is not understood that a request that is reasonable, and complies with the law, is not heeded.”
And this occurs in the same week “that the Government of the Canary Islands refuses to apply the 60% reduction in personal income tax to those who reside in La Palma,” lamented Barreto.
