The spokesperson for the Association of State Treasury Inspectors (IHE), José María Peláez, notified the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, that if the “Catalan economic agreement” is transferred to the rest of the regions, as the minister has slipped“the State disappears.”
In an interview with Servimedia, Peláez warned that, in that case, the autonomous communities would pay the expenses of the Government, the Royal House and the Cortes, but “State funds would disappear to pay for employment or pensions”, among other issues.
He criticized that both the Secretary of State for the Treasury and the director of the Tax Agency “They are swimming and keeping their forms” regarding the unique financing of Catalonia, since “they have not said a resounding ‘no’.” Thus, he was “very concerned” about the lack of “frontal opposition” on the part of the Treasury and asked that the “serious harm” of imposing, in his opinion, an “economic agreement” for Catalonia be “made evident.”
“No one has given a single advantage to reaching this economic concert solution beyond politics,” he reproached, while calling it a “lie” that the model proposed for Catalonia can be extended to other autonomies in line with recent statements. de Montero in which he assured that other territories can also access the unique financing.
According to the inspectors, it is a “concert regime” that “is not provided for in the Constitution” and that “can cause tax fraud.” Thus, the spokesperson warned of the “very negative” consequences if the Tax Agency is divided and “we disappear in Catalonia”, which would affect the “taxpayer assistance assistance service, income refunds and rapid exchange of information.”
In this way, Peláez warned that the exchange of information with other administrations “will be delayed and harmed.”
“Networked” collaboration
The Secretary of State for the Treasury, Jesús Gascón, last week at a Congress in Córdoba organized by the inspectors, called for “tranquility” and proposed collaborating “on a network” with the Catalan Treasury to address the fight against fraud in a manner joint.
The spokesman for the Treasury inspectors explained that working in a network means “that you can see the information that is on the other side.” “It would assume that the Tax Agency could access the database of the Catalan Agency and that of Catalonia could access the database of the State Agency”.
According to the spokesperson, it is a “positive measure if carried out,” but that “does not remedy the problems.” “It is not what the Catalans want,” he argued, since “the ideal would be for there to be a single database.”
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