The president of the Confederation of Businessmen of Andalusia, Javier González de Larahas demanded “safe institutional environments, firm support, compliance with deadlines and non-interference or ideological interventionism” so that companies can develop their activity and contribute to the progress of the territory. González de Lara, in a veiled allusion to the tax imposed on banks and energy companies during an institutional speech on the occasion of the celebration of Business Day, insisted that what companies need “is for them to let us work.”
The territorial director in Andalusia of Caixabank, Juan Ignacio Zafrawho before an audience of 400 businessmen and political leaders pointed out that in banking the consequences of the tax are “quite negative and complex.” In his speech he argued that taxation affects competitivenessand even more so if it taxes results in a context of lower rates. “If we have to dedicate part of the capital to taxes there will be less to lend to families and companies. In addition, we may become the only European country with this tax, so families and companies in the rest of Europe will be better financed,” he noted.
Juanma Moreno
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, closed the institutional event held at the CEA headquarters also with messages against this tax “which puts one of the most ambitious projects for Andalusia at serious risk“, in reference to Cepsa’s decision to paralyze its 3 billion investments in the Andalusian Hydrogen Valley.
Moreno explained that they have been working on this project for five years, and that everything is ready to begin with the works next Marchafter clearing all the administrative procedures.
“He called on the Government and the minister (María Jesús Montero) to to reflect and turn back. In economic terms, the collection is not significant, but it dynamites our ability to receive investments,” Moreno has said.
Company Day
In this third edition of the CEA Business Day, one of the awards granted has gone precisely to the Junta de Andalucía for its Project Accelerator Unitwhich is currently processing 136 initiatives that involve 13,000 million in investment and 50,000 jobs. Their job is to facilitate administrative procedures and coordinate bureaucracy between different departments so that everything runs smoothly and projects do not falter due to exhaustion and delays with paperwork.
Moreno has highlighted that Andalusia offers companies a “safe, stable and free environment”, which has made Andalusia currently leader in number of companies (617,000 according to the IECA), even ahead of Madrid, leader in number of self-employed (583,000), leader in exports where records are being broken with 27.5 billion between January and August, and adding sectors to the agri-food and tourism pillars such as innovation, which grows 27% this year. The business trust grows more than in the rest of Spain, and for the first time there is 3.5 million employedwith an unemployment rate of 16%, the lowest record since 2007, just before the real estate bubble burst.
The Andalusian president has highlighted that his policies administrative simplification and better taxation They have worked, and he promises more in the first section. “Companies ask us for it, and we still have a lot of room for improvement,” he noted.
“The challenge now is to help companies gain volume“, he assured. The president has listed some of the support measures that have been implemented by the Andalusian Executive, such as the creation of eight digital training centers for the labor needs of companies, with an investment of 30 million in four years; venture capital funds to promote entrepreneurship; subsidies in 2024 to improve the competitiveness of SMEs and promote R&D&I, or the 200 million processed in record time to compensate for the extra energy costs for 30,000 SMEs and autonomous.
Furthermore, he stated that the companies reflect the good economic tone in Andalusia that improve your forecasts growth to 2.7% in 2024, after revising upwards seven tenths and which for 2025 places it between 2.4 and 2.5, these two years greatly surpassing the Euro Zone and advancing in convergence with Europe.
In this context, Moreno gives maximum importance to the role of energy to take “the great economic leap that Andalusia never took”, with forecasts in the medium term to reach 75% of supply through renewables and projects of European relevance in hydrogen. green. “The clean, safe and cheap energy It is a great competitive advantage to establish the industry. It is an opportunity that we cannot lose.” Hence their indignation with the flight of investors that the tax could cause.
Awarded
The president of Andalusian businessmen, Javier González de Lara, joked at the event with the fact that Business Day was set by the Andalusian Parliament for the October 28. Day of Saint Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of impossible causes (in addition to his birthday).
He Parliament of Andalusia, the Civil Guard, the National Police and the Accelerator Unit of Projects of the Board have been specially recognized for “contributing to the improvement of democratic quality, security and the development of business activity” in the community.
González de Lara has highlighted that “550,000 companies operate in Andalusia that generate 2.8 million jobs”, and that “these companies have behind them women and men who one day dreamed of creating them, had the courage to do so, and with a lot of effort. and perseverance they maintain”. González de Lara highlighted that this day “is a day of celebration for everyone, because company we are all. The CEOs, the employees, those of us who use their products and services, all contribute to generating and shaping the company.” Along the same lines, he recalled the fundamental role that companies play, which “transform society.”
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