The Senate Economic Affairs Committee approved the bill without any changes. Temporary taxes on banks, energy companies and large fortunesafter rejecting two vetoes in the first ballot was raised by citizens Y PP.
The Norm is now heading to the Senate plenary and will predictably give final approval next week without changes, so it won’t have to go back to Congress.
The intention of the socialist parliamentary group not to include any further changes in this proposal softened the discussions in the commission, Considering the 72 approved amendments, almost all groups refused to intervene.
PP accuses him of ‘fraud’
Yes, PP intervened, which himpressed that the bill was a “fraud” because there is no draft law, it evades the view of the Council of State and at the same time creates a new tax. “The conflict between the rich and the poor”.
They responded from the PSOE that they vetoed the bill, opposing the idea that wealth widely shared in the European Union (EU) should be distributed “in an extraordinary situation requiring extraordinary measures”.
In addition, Senate groups recorded 72 partial amendments to the bill, mainly from Ciudadanos (23) and Más Madrid (10), as well as from ERC (8), Vox (8), PP (5), PNV (4). , JxCAT (4), Bildu (3), Canary Islands Coalition (2), Més per Mallorca (2), Agrupación Socialista Gomera (2) and Teruel Existe (1).
The PP changes aim to make the energy tax equal to the European tax on unexpected profits from fuel companies, and to abolish both the tax on the great wealth and the tax on banks, and in turn improve the code of good practices for banks to protect the vulnerable. mortgagers.
Similar to the general veto, 23 amendments citizens They propose the abolition of the tax on large fortunes and the adaptation of banking and energy taxes to European parameters, as well as the introduction of various exemptions, depending, for example, on the size of the company.
Changes CKD They propose paying 50% of the resources obtained through the three taxes to the autonomous communities, raising the tax on financial transactions or gambling profit rates with tax speculative products such as derivatives.
For its part, PNV is introducing four changes to the energy tax to tax extraordinary gains instead of income, establish a rebate for energy conversion-related investments, and detach income of non-energy group companies.
Changes know They also propose taxation of income from outside Spain in the bank tax and agree to harmonize the tax on large estates with the Basque Country and Navarre.
Vox wants only extraordinary benefits taxed
vox It proposes that taxes on banks and energy companies should only tax their extraordinary benefits and give them a final character – the income being used to reduce the energy bill or housing benefit – and also reimburse the investment cut in the habitual residence.
The amendments made by the Canary Islands Coalition and the Gomera Socialist Association aim to exempt from energy tax revenues from fuel distribution and sales on the non-capital islands of Ceuta and Melilla.
JxCAT aims to allocate the tax-derived resource to the autonomous communities, as well as to exclude operators without oil refining capacity from energy tax and limit the amount payable to a maximum of 20% of company profits.
Más Madrid noted the changes so that the three taxes are permanent and half of their collections go to the autonomous communities; this is a proposal also shared by Més per Mallorca, while Teruel Existe wants the commissions of legal entities to be deducted from the bank tax for no profit.