The Minister of Economy, Finance and European Funds and spokesperson for the Andalusian Government, Carolina España (PP-A), has indicated that her department estimates that Andalusia would lose 76 million euros if the proceeds from the tax on banks are finally distributed according to of GDP and not by population criteria. “That is, we -by population- 303 million would correspond and only 227 would arrive, based on GDP. million euros,” said the counselor, who denounced that, with Pedro Sánchez as president, “Andalusia always loses.”
According to the Government’s agreement with its parliamentary partners (Junts), the collection of the banking tax, with a forecast of 1,345 million euros with data from 2022 for the calculation of the Andalusian executive, would be distributed among the autonomous communities. But not with adjusted population criteria, like the bulk of regional financing, but rather based on GDP. “Only Catalonia, the Basque Country and Madrid would receive more money than if it were distributed based on the population,” they say in the Junta de Andalucía.
With the proposed distribution, they insist, Andalusia would receive 26.72 euros per inhabitant, 9 below the average nationally, 14.5 euros less than Catalonia, 16.15 less than Navarra, 18.56 less than the Basque Country or 22.14 less than Madrid.
The four communities worst financed with the current system (Valencia, Murcia, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia) are the ones with the worst stops in the calculation made by the Board, which adds this fact to the long list of “grievances” that it claims against the central government. A list headed precisely by the 1,522 million euros less it receives annually in regional financing. “It would increase the financing gap,” they say.
Rejection
The ministry has been very opposed to both this tax and the one that wants to be applied to energy companies. Regarding the latter, counselor Carolina España has stressed that from the Andalusian Government “we are not going to accept blackmail from partners” by Pedro Sánchez that “they are putting at risk” the Andalusian Valley of Green Hydrogen project, according to the spokesperson, who stressed that “we are talking about about 5,000 million euros in investments, 10,000 jobs“, and he lamented that, “as a consequence of this tax on energy companies that the Government wants to extend” and “implement, investors are paralyzed waiting to see what happens.”
Carolina España has insisted on pointing out that the Board does not understand “how the socialists in Andalusia do not raise their voices, They do not defend Andalusia” nor “the important investments that are going to come” to the autonomous community and that “can be put at risk.”
Along these lines, the spokesperson councilor concluded by commenting that she would “like to know where progressivism is here” and “why do we have an Andalusian in the Council of Ministers who is more aligned with Catalonia and the Basque Country than with Andalusia?” said, referring to the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, the Sevillian Maria Jesus Montero.
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