Voting on tax reform, live | The Government brings its tax reform to Congress with the support of Podemos in the air

The Government may face this Thursday a new legislative failure after a week of tough negotiations with the different parliamentary groups to move forward with their tax reform. After a grotesque commission that lasted eight hours on Monday and in which the Executive yielded to ERC, Bildu and BNG to include a tax on energy companies and thus approve the text, it faces its final examination today in Congress. The Government does not have all the support tied up, especially that of Podemos, which requires the Ministry of Finance to publicly commit to approving a tax that, in practice, do not remain on wet paper.

Junts had agreed with the Treasury to completely eliminate this taxbut last Monday, after announcing the agreement with ERC, Bildu and the BNG to maintain it, he managed to get the Government to publicly commit that the new tax on energy companies will not tax companies “that maintain their commitment to decarbonization.”