with European size tax debate on energy companies In a moment of absolute crisis due to the war in Ukraine, it can still have many consequences in Spain. On Tuesday, Congress approved the PSOE and United We Can proposal to be accepted for processing. taxes to these companies and banking. Although the PP advocated the spirit of temporary limitation of extraordinary benefits, it voted against it as it understood the tax promoted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez. purely “ideological”.
Conservatives believe it This is a “reconciliation of accounts”. Mountain goat”He said he had stopped trusting the president and would have focused on energy companies, not banks, if he were truly on the road to easing the consumer bill. “It has nothing to do with supply, just trying to punish big companies”, they insist on Genoa, while admitting the doubts created by their position within the formation. First of all, they do not understand a rejection of this tribute by the citizens, because this newspaper publishes it out of fear.
pp he would only consider changing his position if the government made a comeback they comply with the proposed tax and fully comply with the proposals of the European Commission. “The understanding of this rate, which is temporary, should be a finalist. So companies have to lower their electricity bill. But Sánchez’s tax just wants to collect money and have the Government distribute it as they wish,” they complain in Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s environment.
The public is pedagogic to explain their position and continues to argue that they are in line with the speech of Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. This Wednesday, the leader of the European conservatives unveiled some keys to the anti-crisis plan to deal with the consequences of the energy crisis. He proposed, on the one hand, to limit the revenues of the electricity companies, and on the other hand, to tax the extraordinary profits of the oil companies. In total, he said, with these measures, the collection amount will be. 140 billion. Of course he added: “For what? Member States directly mitigate the blow”.
This finalist character is exactly what Feijóo’s PP pointed out “big difference” Between what von der Leyen suggested and Pedro Sánchez’s bet. In Genoa, they say, “If the government makes a change in the proposal model and changes it to the model of the European Union, focusing on reassuring citizens and putting ideology aside, we will examine it.”
For this reason, PP favors its focus on energy companies and designing a mechanism to achieve this. collects have a direct impact on household bills. “If the government changes its approach, we will see our position in the change process,” they explain. In reality, it is a position very similar to that of the PNV, except that Basque nationalists decided to support the adoption of the Government’s measure, relying on the need for substantial changes later to unify the criteria with European ones.
The popular ones understand this. bank tax is not justified due to the energy crisis situation and should be excluded from this proposal. “There’s no point in putting power companies and banks in the same bag,” they say.
In a commitment to explaining its position, PP continues to reiterate that its major demands are for tax relief on VAT on electricity, gas, as well as personal income tax deflation, which PSOE supports in the Basque Country. “If the measures for the citizens to pay less, we will be there.. That’s why we want taxes to be lowered. If a tax is going to have this effect, we’ll look into it as well. But that’s not what the Manager wants right now”, they say in Genoa.
Advocacy of the vote against the measure, which was debated in Congress on Tuesday, received a harsh tone from popular lawmaker Mario Garcés, who described the initiative as an unprecedented “legal monstrosity” that “undermines the most fundamental constitutional principles”. The PP’s arguments look at the most technical part of the tribute, and the question some leaders ask themselves is whether citizens will actually understand it.