Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC) has rejected this Tuesday the fiscal reform announced by the Executive, composed of Coalición Canaria and the Partido Popular, which benefits the large inheritances of the Archipelago. In addition, it has described these measures as a "tax party", considering that they are "aligned with the same policies decided by the extreme right of the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community, as well as the territories of Madrid and Andalusia, presided over by conservatives Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla".
The Canarian party warns that, with the fiscal rules, the capacity for spending on health, education, social services and investments is reduced by nearly 40 million euros.
Faced with the approval, this Monday and by decree law, of the 99.9% bonus for groups II and III of kinship in the Inheritance and Donations tax, Román Rodríguez reclaimed the regulation of the aforementioned tax launched in 2020 under his responsibilities as minister in the matter of the Government of progress.
"Designed with criteria of progressivity and social justice", the president of NC recalled that the exemption was already applied to group I (children and adopted children under 21 years of age) and was reduced to 99.9% of the groups that received an estate of less than 300,000 euros per heir. It was subsidized, he added, 90% for inheritances and donations between 300,000 euros and 400,000 euros per beneficiary, 80% between 400,000 euros and 500,000 euros and “so on”. So that “they had no reduction” the inherited or donated assets for an amount greater than 1.2 million euros, as he explained.
The decision of the Government of CC and the PP, published this Tuesday in the Official Gazette, "was rejected outright by Rodríguez by denouncing that it only favors large inheritances, less than 5% of the population of the islands. In addition to being aligned, as he remarked, with the same measures adopted by the governments of the extreme right of the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands, as well as the territories presided over by the conservatives Díaz Ayuso and Moreno Bonilla.
The president of NC assured that the governmental argument that the beneficiaries renounce the inheritance due to the existence of this tax is “completely false”. Different studies show, Rodríguez indicated, that one of the main reasons for rejecting the aforementioned assets are the various burdens they entail (such as debts) and the disagreements between family members. Based on various technical sources, he emphasized that there are more resignations in Andalusia despite the bonus.
As is also an “invention”, continued the Canarian leader, that this measure, as stated in the explanatory memorandum of the decree law, will contribute to reducing inflation.
Nueva Canarias is very critical of the tax “party” initiated by the Canarian conservative Executive. In the opinion of Román Rodríguez, the Canarian coffers can withstand the loss of 18 million euros. But to this amount, and as a consequence of the fiscal rules, another equivalent amount will have to be deducted, that is, that in the next financial year the Canary Islands will have a lower spending capacity close to 40 million euros.
On the other hand, if the losses derived from the “still unfulfilled” electoral promise to lower the General Indirect Tax (IGIC) to 5% and other similar measures are taken into account, it is “undeniable” that expenses will have to be touched and investments in health, education, social services and infrastructure will have to be cut, he questioned.
