Puig marks the start of the election year with the announcement of tax reform

The informative breakfast held at the New Economy Forum in Valencia moved between these growth and distribution frameworks yesterday. Not new. The hallmark of Puig’s action since he was at the Palau de la Generalitat: social advances, proposals from the left, but in dialogue with the business class, without tension and supporting the arrival of investments, as employment is fundamental, as he boasted yesterday. (Renewed commitment of Volkswagen gigafactory, Ford, Amazon, Mitsubishi or Caixabank with CaixaForum).

The proposals presented yesterday moved unwaveringly in this area of ​​social development, at nine o’clock on the first Monday morning of September, in an action that had a big starting signal for the political course (one-year elections too). big capital.

Puig embarks on a decisive route that underscores a centre-left profile. Maybe it was time yesterday to draw more attention to the first part of the compound word, the middle part. Therefore, the main proposal was a “tax review” in the Valencia tax zone.

The tax cut is the axis of the PP’s and Valencia’s leader Carlos Mazón’s anti-crisis policy. The left, including the PSOE, criticized this proposal for weeks, which was indeed embraced by German social democracy, until last week Pedro Sánchez announced he would cut the VAT on energy.

And Puig caught that wave yesterday. It is a way to narrow the field to PP. It’s about continuing what started at the last PSPV summer dinner in Gandia, when a municipal alliance against inflation was announced. “This is the big challenge,” he insisted yesterday. Regarding this alliance, he said he will call the mayors to a municipal conference in the coming weeks.

When the time comes, tax reform now plays the leading role. Puig didn’t specify much. He said he was working on the Treasury, which will be discussed at the next Consell seminar (this weekend), but it’s about adjusting efforts to address inflation, which is a “high priority”. However, Valencia admitted that the tax action was “very limited”. After the seminar and possibly the general policy debate in the Assembly, the last week of the month, details will be worked out to capitalize on the implications.

In Puig’s environment, Compromis is no stranger to the proposal, as the Treasury’s regional secretary Francesc Gamero (from the coalition) is working on the measures.

As for the scope of the reform, there are probably two things to touch on: family business taxation (which PSPV already had in its bonuses booster program) and inheritance tax.

For the time being, however, Puig focused the discussion on “helping the middle and working classes, further protecting the vulnerable population, and promoting job creation.” Here are some broad goals for which different interests may be appropriate.

In addition to announcing direct aid against inflation, Consel’s chairman advocated a more left-wing proposal: to raise wages and the inter-professional minimum wage, but to circumvent this – the hallmark of his epoch – by moderation. social dialogue by agreement with the employer. The lease agreement will be the solution.

The rise in prices is linked to the energy crisis. Puig defended its renewable energy commitment and censored any nuclear route. Consell’s chairman influenced the Valencia Pact for Energy Transformation. Therefore, he insisted on the need to encourage the establishment of these clean energies, which are creating friction within the governing coalition.

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PPCV heard the announcement of Ximo Puig’s tax inspection and felt identified with his words. So much so that María José Catalá, trustee of the main opposition party in the Cortes, “welcomed” the president of the Generalitat as he followed the “prescription of lowering taxes” of the popular ones. However, the joy of this suggestion, which they found coincidentally, did not prevent them from making the claim to “specify” as well as some criticisms.

Comparing Puig’s change of position to what Pedro Sánchez did at the national level, Catalá said, “Puig promises that he hasn’t done it in almost eight years, a few months before the election.” Assuming what Alberto Núñez Feijóo suggests about the need to lower VAT on energy». “Welcome to Puig the descriptions of the People’s Party,” added the general secretary of the PPCV.

As popular trustee Puig put it, he “had to accept Carlos Mazón’s proposal for fiscal reform and tax cuts a year ago.” “Inflation, energy costs, the shopping cart and the start of the school year are reasons enough at PPCV to feel satisfied that Puig accepted our prescriptions, albeit late, inaccurately, and implicitly,” he said.

There was less satisfaction among his partners. Both Compromís and Unides Podem have set a condition for adopting a “tax readjustment” that this should be progressive, not a reduction for large estates. “We will never, ever accept that those who earn more than ever continue to earn more in a situation where the general population is paying more than ever before,” said Papi Robles, trustee of Compromís.

In this sense, the parliamentary spokesman assured Compromís that he was “aware of the work on the readjustment of taxes” and stressed that the Administration “must regulate the inequalities caused by the market”. In line with this, he stressed that they will not tire of claiming that those who need it most have more support, “because taxes should be a tool that enables all citizens to live well.”

The initial claim in Unides Podem was that “something as important as tax reform” was agreed by the three government partners and that it was “progressive”. They also point out that the real debate is “not lowering or raising taxes, but who pays more and who pays less.” “It’s important to set the debate right,” the educational sources stress, emphasizing that “in no case is reform implying lowering the taxes of the top earners.”

Beyond the parties, from civil society, the Consumer Syndicate thinks Puig “needs to be more specific about what will directly impact users and consumers, particularly those most affected by inflation.” In this sense, its secretary general, Vicente Inglada, called for consultation with users and consumers, who are part of civil society and ultimately most affected, and pointed out that there are organizations that need to be “more active”, such as the Price Observatory. Valencian Community and Financial Observatory.

Message of support to Oltra and the absence of funding and tourism tax

He says he wants the former vice president, whom he considers “valid,” to be “dismissed.”

What is not said in a lecture (meditated and timed) is also important. Excluding 35 minutes of exposure. Puig didn’t mention the tourist rate yesterday. Nor, despite regional funding highlighting the increased opportunities for Valencians and extra funds from the Government in recent years.

The leader of PSPV also said he wanted to underline that the Valencia Community’s current position in employment and social protection is far from what it was before 2015. Therefore, while in Madrid the cost of back-to-school increases a lot due to the purchase of books, in the Community this does not happen because of free textbooks in public education. And before jobs were destroyed, Botànic confirmed that more than 300,000 were created during this period. Community is “autonomy in which inequality grows least. That is, where social cohesion resists best,” he stressed, citing a study by Caixabank. During the question, Puig said he wanted former Vice President Mónica Oltra to be fired. She called him a “valid” person.

Puig closed his speech with a message against pessimism, criticizing the bad press for optimism he justified.