The Minister of Economy and Finance, Alicia Romeroannounced this Monday the creation of a group of expertsmade up of seven people, for the design and implementation of the new unique financing model agreed between PSC and ERC.
This team will be coordinated by the economist Marti Carnicerformer Secretary of Economy and Finance, former PSC deputy and former mayor of El Vendrell (Tarragona).
In an interview on the SER chain, the counselor has argued that it is necessary to specify the content of this new financing model. In principle, the new system will hand over the collection of all taxes to the Generalitat and will redefine Catalonia’s contributions to the common treasury based on two concepts: one in compensation for State services and another to maintain interterritorial solidarity.
Romero has explained that Carnicer was one of the architects of the previous financing model designed under the tripartite. Furthermore, he added that the group of experts will be made up of people from inside and outside Catalonia.
The group of experts, led by Carnicer, will also have Maite Vilalta Ferrerprofessor of Public Finance at the UB and member of the Barcelona Institute of Economics; Vincent Soler MarcoPhD in Economics from the University of Valencia, Research Scholar at the London School of Economics and former Minister of Finance of the Generalitat Valenciana, Alex Esteller MorePhD in Economics from the University of Barcelona and professor at the UB; Marta Espasa QueraltPhD in Economics from the UB who has been a member of several groups of experts for the preparation of the fiscal balance of Catalonia and secretary of Hisenda; Joan Ramon Rovira HomsPhD in Economics from the University of Manchester and head of the Office of Economic and Infrastructure Studies of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, and Jesus Ruiz-Huerta Carbonellprofessor of Applied Economics at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid and consultant to the EU and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
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