The PSOE of Lanzarote rejects the fuel bonus proposed by the Government of the Canary Islands that would exclusively benefit the Green Islands. The socialist spokesperson in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Ariagona González, has shown the PSOE's frontal rejection of the first fiscal measures proposed by the new Government of the Canary Islands.
Regarding the proposal to reduce the fuel tax to the so-called Green Islands, González pointed out that "there are no elements that justify this bonus being applied only to the islands of La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro and that it would imply a flagrant discrimination for Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, which share with the previous ones the double insularity and their condition of non-capital and less populated".
"It would imply a flagrant discrimination for Lanzarote and Fuerteventura"
Referring to the proposal to reduce the IGIC from 7% to 5%, the socialist councilor pointed out that it is a populist proposal: "Canarian families will only benefit from a saving of 16 euros per month and, in return, the Canary Islands will stop receiving income worth 450 million euros that will directly affect the financing of the Cabildos.»
For the socialist spokesperson, these proposals are "so crude and so forced that they can only be understood as a smokescreen for the third proposal, already approved, by the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party: to subsidize the inheritance tax on large inheritances", she adds.
"While the first two proposals have remained in that, a mere announcement, Fernando Clavijo's executive has already brought forward its true objective: to extend the 99.9% bonus to inheritances that exceed three million euros, something that only benefits a handful of families, at the cost of reducing public income", she emphasizes.
Ariagona González has announced that her group will bring to the next plenary session of the Corporation "a motion of rejection to these measures, for implying a discrimination for Lanzarote, for affecting the economic resources of the Cabildo and for benefiting the great fortunes at the cost of the general interest".
"Now we will see Oswaldo Betancort's real capacity to defend the interests of Lanzarote and avoid this unjustified discrimination", the councilor concluded.
