Not a year ago, asked about the possibility of raising new tax increases, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, spoke that the task of reviewing the fiscal framework in search of new measure that contribute to the fact that, in their … own words, those who have more contribute to general well -being “never end” and that the Executive will continue to explore possibilities to raise the imposition on those who have more economic capacity.
With this precedent, he surprised that Montero would take off in the presentation of the budget execution data of 2024 saying that the Government considered its fiscal reform completed and that, beyond what may occur with the equalization of diesel taxation with gasoline -compromised with Brussels but stuck by the lack of sufficient parliamentary support- “There are no more measures on the table” in terms of taxation in the conversations that are maintained with the government partners to add.
«We do not rule out that if from other ministries, such as ecological transition, the Need for some measure in green taxation We can study it, but always more from a deterrent more than collecting, “said the vice president, in the act in which she announced that the Spanish public administrations closed the 2024 exercise in line with what was committed to Brussels, since although the public deficit ended at 3.15%, 0.35 points of the same are attributable to the expenses of the DANA and those The European Commission.
Now it’s time to raise taxes to other administrations
The minister acknowledged that there is still an income gap to close with the European Commission, but unlike what had been saying to date on the matter He transferred the responsibility of shortening it to other public administrations.
In what seemed like a speech change threat, Montero further affected the fiscal reduction measures adopted For the government in the context of the inflationist spiral that in the possibilities of improving the income account, at the gates of a scenario in which the necessary increase in defense expenditure seems to force to generate new sources of income. In that line, he wanted to combat the accusations of fiscal hell that launches the PP by putting on the table the fact that the fiscal reduction measures adopted since Pedro Sánchez is president would have allegedly reduced in more than 38,000 million euros the taxes to individuals and companies, a figure that did not hold in any precise fact and that seems to inflate the effect of the measures adopted in the last two or three years to aligrate the impact of the impact of prices on the pockets of Spanish taxpayers.
What the data presented this Thursday by the Ministry of Finance is that tax revenues increased during 2024 by no less than 27,216 million euros, carrying the total figure entered by this channel to the record figure of 381,436 million euros and the income of public administrations up to 42.26% of GDP.
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