The permanent tax on energy companies is becoming more and more complicated for the socialist Executive. The spokesperson for Junts in the Congress of Deputies, Miriam Nogueras, made it clear this Wednesday that her party will not facilitate “the approval of anything that puts at risk any investment of any kind in Catalonia and, specifically, in Tarragona.”
In statements to the media in the halls of Congress, Nogueras has referred to the same concern that exists in the Basque Country, that of companies fleeing the possibility of continuing to pay a rate that since January 2023 has already cost them millions of dollars. euros (the tax is levied on 1.2% of the turnover).
Precisely, on Monday the Catalan employers’ association Foment del Treball called the rate “fiscal coup” which harms the competitiveness of the territories, especially Tarragona, where Repsol has committed 1.1 billion euros to various energy transition projects.
That is why the Junts deputy specifically referred to that province, which is a hub of the energy industry, and recalled that it is “very important for Catalonia”, so “important investments cannot be put at risk.” “We will see in any case what is the exact proposal that the Government publishes in this fiscal package that it is supposed to present,” he stressed, adding that still “there is no public proposal» by the Executive. “We will see what happens in the coming days,” he said.
From Sumar, for their part, they press in the opposite direction and a few days ago they pointed out that the negotiations on the General State Budgets with the PSOE are “stalled” because this group defends “making permanent the taxes on the extraordinary profits of banking and energy companies”, but for the moment the socialists ” “They’re not there yet.”
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