PSOE Canarias has criticized the bonus of the Inheritance and Donations Tax approved this Monday by the regional government, formed by the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party. In this way, it has indicated that it is "a tax gift" to the high incomes of the Archipelago and that "it will only benefit 5% of the Canarian people".
In this line, the socialist party has highlighted that it is "a measure adopted by the most expensive Government of the Canary Islands in history and contradictory to its discourse." It has also added that this would mean failing to collect between 18 and 20 million euros, at the same time as it claims to suffer "a budgetary insufficiency".
The general secretary and president of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Ángel Víctor Torres, has also denounced "the excuse" that Fernando Clavijo's Executive is trying to articulate in order not to fulfill its electoral commitment to lower the IGIG from 7 to 5%, talking about the fact that they have found an economic hole in the area of Health when it is usual that in all the exercises there are budgetary adjustments. "They are trying to intoxicate in order to do something they will not be able to achieve, and that is to deceive the citizens again," he said.
"The first fiscal measure they have taken as a matter of urgency with a decree law has not been to lower the IGIG to all Canarians - which was their electoral commitment - or to help families who are having a hard time, those with fewer resources or those with more economic needs. Their first measure has been to benefit 5% of the Canarian people, and that 5% are those who receive high inheritances," lamented the leader of the Canarian socialists.
Torres recalled that "with us in the government, with the previous law, a man or a woman who received an inheritance of 300,000 euros and was an only child, paid absolutely nothing. Nor two brothers, with an apartment or land with up to 600,000 euros." However, CC and PP "want to make people think now that with us whoever inherited anything had to pay an inheritance or donation tax and that is absolutely false".
He insisted that the modification approved this Monday "benefits those who receive high inheritances, high incomes", since it is "a tax that logically taxes wealth". On the other hand, "CC and PP what they have decided is, their first measure, to take a fiscal decision that benefits high incomes, the rich, with a cost of between 18 and 20 million approximately". "Another contradiction," he stressed, "because in the meantime they claim that there is a budgetary insufficiency."
All this, in addition, while continuing to incorporate senior positions to what is already "the most expensive government in the history of the Canary Islands. They said they were going to slim down the administration and they already have 38 more positions and there are still appointments to be made," he said.
The striking alignment of CC and Vox
Ángel Víctor Torres also confessed this Tuesday surprised with the position adopted by the Canarian Coalition in the negotiations for the investiture of the new president of the Government, positioning itself in a "striking" way in the same place as Vox, a party that is against 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 government of Feijoó without the support of Vox," he said.
