«you are not alone. “You have all our support, including legal means, to prevent things from being done as if there were no rules, as if there were no law.” The association of State Treasury Inspectors, which for weeks has assumed the vanguard of the opposition of Treasury professionals to the political agreement to transfer to the Catalan Tax Agency (ATC) the powers that the state agency currently exercises and including its human resources at the cost of the rupture of its current structure, has decided to go on the offensive and, once the lack of response from the Treasury leadership to its demands for clarity regarding the process has been confirmed, it has chosen to go directly to Treasury staff in Catalonia to try to organize a collective response.
In an open letter to the staff of the Tax Agency in Catalonia published on the association’s blog and signed by its board of directors en bloc, the association that represents 80% of the elite body in the fight against fraud announces that in the next days he will travel to Barcelona to meet with the special delegate of Catalonia and with the workers assigned to the autonomous community to discuss the possible transfer of the human resources of the Tax Agency in the territory to the Generalitat, a movement that they take for granted both because of the agreement itself and because of the information that has been appearing in recent weeks.
«We are all of us and, especially those of you who are assigned therewho must take the initiative in defense of the public. It is now that you must express your opinion regarding future agreements before it is too late,” the letter encourages the staff of the State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT) in Catalonia. “Let us be brave in defending the future of many public employees and their families.”
currency exchange
The association of State Treasury Inspectors has taken this step after in the meeting held last week with the Secretary of State for Finance, Jesús Gascón, this did not give them any guarantee about the maintenance of the current structure of the Tax Agency or about the future destiny of the nearly 4,000 workers that the state agency has there and that the association suspects will be transferred to the Generalitat if the plan to transfer management, collection and inspection powers to Catalonia goes ahead.
“If no authority is capable of guaranteeing their immediate future, in the case of those workers who provide service in Catalonia, it is especially serious,” says the association. “It seems quite likely that when they contact you it will not be to get your opinion, but rather to communicate a decision that is already closed».
The association of State Treasury Inspectors considers that the Government is using AEAT workers as “bargaining currency for political agreements”which in his opinion not only dehumanizes the people who carry out their work for the state structure of the tax administration but also “offers an image of public service that citizens do not deserve.”
A controversial agreement
The Central Government endorsed at the time the pact reached by PSC and ERC to guarantee the investiture of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat, which not only included the development of a self-financing model similar to a kind of concert but also the assumption by the Catalan Tax Agency of the management, collection and inspection powers that the state Tax Agency currently exercises, as well as the provision of human and material resources.
A couple of months ago, Illa guaranteed in Parliament that the ATC staff would be reinforced to quadruple its resources, a magnitude that corresponds exactly to the volume of the AEAT staff in Catalonia.
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