Experts continue to question the Catalan quota. After the director of Fedea warned that the new financing represented a “confederation through the back door”, the Association of State Treasury Inspectors (IHE) maintained in a statement that the fiscal pact agreed between the PSC and ERC in exchange for the investiture of Salvador Illa constitutes an “atrocity.” The reason is that, in his opinion, the chosen formula “destroys the tax system and fragments the Tax Agency.” This assessment comes after Illa’s announcement yesterday in Parliament to “multiply by four” the resources allocated to the Catalan Treasury so that it is capable of managing all taxes.
State inspectors judge that for Catalonia is capable of administering, inspecting and collecting all taxes, it is necessary to reform some laws or even the Constitution. However, they consider that “everything indicates that they are going to take steps along the de facto path, knowing that later it is impossible to turn back. And what is done in practice, against the laws currently in force, will be seen.” in the future how the rules are modified”.
Furthermore, they warn that the change in system “necessarily implies, because it cannot be otherwise, the transfer of staff from the State Tax Agency to the Catalan one.” “A true atrocity, with very serious consequences in the application of the tax system and in the fight against tax fraud, which it seems that no politician cares about”they estimate.
This association has already shown its deep rejection to the Catalan concert when the pre-agreement between socialists and republicans was announced at the beginning of summer. “Among the constitutional principles of the Spanish tax system is that of equality and non-confiscation (article 31.1). If taxes generated throughout Spain are stolen from Spaniards, these two principles are being contravened,” they warned then.
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