The Government of Salvador Illa and ERC They have agreed to reduce the autonomic stretch of the Income Tax of natural persons (IRPF) for income of up to 33,000 gross euros a year. As ‘Catalunya Ràdio’ has advanced and has confirmed Elisenda Alamany, ERC General Secretary, at the press conference after the executive meeting, this agreement has occurred within the framework of the decree of fiscal measures which is finalizing the socialist executive. Alamany has celebrated this initiative: “We have managed to reduce IRPF for the vast majority of Catalans.”
Alamany has indicated that this reduction of the personal income tax has been agreed at the proposal of ERC, will affect “three out of four Catalans” and will have to be confirmed in a vote in the Parliament, for which it will suffice with the approval of the commons of Jéssica Albiach. In recent weeks, the Government Catalan and the commons They have also agreed to increase the tourist rate and the property transmissions tax, which will also be included in this decree.
Regarding the IRPF reduction, the ‘number two’ Oriol Junqueras He added that the high income will not see their fiscal burden modified, that is, the pact “does not include an increase to the highest income” and, in any case, this agreement does not prejudge that other pacts in fiscal and financial matters are reached, above all, taking into account that ERC has already refused to negotiate some budgets by 2025.
Specifically, waiting to know the detail of the announcement, Alamany has confirmed that It will be a reduction of the tax rate in the regional section from a percentage point to income that gain up to 12,500 euros (which will go from a tax rate of 10.5% to 9.5%).
PP and Junts, in favor of the tax reduction
For his part, the general secretary of the Catalan PP, Santi Rodríguez, He has valued this pact as “positive” although he has criticized that at the same time the Government raises other taxes such as the tourist rate. “Fiscal policy is not about pieces, it is about having an overall vision of fiscal policy, not lowering taxes and climbing others, because this, without a doubt, will harm the tourism sector of Catalonia,” said Rodríguez, at a press conference at the headquarters of the party, EPs collects.
Josep Rius, Juns spokesman and one of the vice presidents of this match, has also given the IRPF reduction, but has criticized that, in his opinion, “arrives late.” As the aforementioned ERC spokesman and the PP, Rius, after the weekly meeting of the executive of the party of Carles Puigdemont, He has welcomed this tax reduction “and has assured that this initiative was collected in the Junts electoral program.
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