The Podemos deputy Javier Sánchez Serna stressed this Saturday that his party is open to negotiating “measure by measure” the law to establish a minimum tax on multinationals that includes the reform of the extraordinary tax on banks, but he has made it clear that it does not They will be able to support it if the Government eliminates the extraordinary tax on energy companies.
The Government has finally decided to do decrease the extraordinary tax on energy companies, which expired on December 31although it has agreed with the PNV to maintain the one that was put on the bench that can be managed by the provincial treasuries.
In an interview with the RTVE program ‘Parlamento’, Sánchez Serna wanted to make it clear that they will reject the corporate tax reform “if the elimination of the tax on energy companies is included in it.”
“We have always kept one thing very clear: Podemos’ four votes in Congress were to advance and they were not going to back down in this legislature. A corporate tax reform may be interesting, but you can’t fool people. It cannot be done at the cost of eliminating the rate that we imposed on energy companies in the last legislature,” he emphasized.
After remembering that companies like Naturgy or Iberdrola They increased their profits in 2023 by close to 20%, the ‘purple’ deputy has stressed that, “following the principle of progressive taxation” mandated by the Constitution, these “extraordinary” profits must be taxed.
“We understand that the PSOE, which is the one that governs, has to negotiate with all the forces, also with the PNV, which We know that it represents a lot of Iberdrolabut he also has to negotiate with Podemos and with the left of the Chamber,” Sánchez Serna recalled.
At this point, he has denounced that the Government has not spoken with them about the elimination of a tax that, he has highlighted, served to collect some funds that can now servefor example “facing catastrophes like DANA.”
Choose partners
In this context, he added that it seems that the PSOE in this legislature “He is more comfortable with the proposals made by the PNV or Junts” than with Podemos. “They have to choose,” he added, before adding that “sometimes you can’t please everyone in politics,” but you can “reach balance points.”
“The thing is that this is not no balance point in which we can enter and, of course, if it stays like this, although we will talk and negotiate, they will not be able to count on Podemos’s four votes,” he stated.
Regarding the changes that the Government wants to introduce in the banking taxhas indicated that they have to study it, but that for them the serious thing is that the tax on energy companies is waived.
Asked if he believes that the PSOE can have the temptation to bring out those amendments with the PP If he sees that they do not give him the numbers with the investiture partners, the Podemos deputy has said that “he could have it” and that it would not be the first time that the “bipartisan system” is found in this legislature, alluding to the renewal of the CGPJ.
“The problem is that I believe that the PP smells blood. If the PP were so clear that the legislature was going to be long, that the PSOE had it done, perhaps it would support these measures, but I think it would also have many difficulties finding that support from the PP, although in many cases they are similar to those proposed by the PP,” he indicated.
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