The Government now doubts whether it will achieve all the necessary support to make taxes on banks and energy companies fixed.
The Government is not at all certain that it will achieve all the necessary support so that, starting next year, taxes on banks and electricity companies are permanent.. Because to do this it has to convince all its partners, including PNV and Junts per Catalunya, that they are not exactly left-wing parties that are in favor of raising taxation.. And, furthermore, in the case of Carles Puigdemont's party, the reactions are unpredictable, as the votes on the amnesty law have shown.
In fact, the first step to make these figures fixed is a complicated test that the Executive is already facing.. The intention of the Ministry of Finance is to introduce in the General State Budgets of 2024 some incentives for reinvestment that, precisely, it agreed with the PNV for the electricity tax.
In this way, the Government secured the initial support of the jeltzale training, which in turn obtained tax relief for companies strongly linked to the Basque Country such as Repsol or Iberdrola.. What remains to be defined is which are the specific investments that are going to be rewarded, since for now it has only been noted that they want to promote the green transition. But there is no agreement of this type with Junts, so their support will have to be negotiated only for this first approximation.
The Treasury confirms that negotiations with the parliamentary groups have already begun, and that no significant progress has yet been made, but that Vice President Montero's objective continues to be to have the accounts approved in the spring.. “They are fundamental Budgets,” he insisted this week. And if he manages to carry out these accounts, Pedro Sánchez's Executive will have a good part of the legislature assured. But the difficulties are evident and the instability of the Government, after the electoral results in Galicia or the so-called Koldo case, do not seem to help.
And even if the Government overcomes this step, and speaking only in fiscal terms, it will still have to negotiate again with all its partners to convert banking and electricity taxes into fixed ones.. At that moment, Junts could be even more unpredictable if the amnesty law has already been approved, which is the scenario handled by the Executive, which would only make everything even more difficult.
The PP has requested protection from the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, to demand from the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, access to the report of the State Attorney's Office that would allow the Upper House to avoid the veto of the general budgets of the State. , which has not been sent by the Government within the regulatory period.
The ordinary deadline for the Executive to send this report to the Senate ended last Monday, so the PP has now requested protection from the Presidency of the Senate to request its “urgent submission.”
Montero referred to this document to indicate that if the Senate once again rejects the path of stability, it will then be able to prepare the budget bill for 2024.
After the deadline expired last Monday, Treasury sources told EFE that the report will be published when it is executive, that is, if the scenario is reached that the PP once again blocks the path of stability, but not before, reports EFE. .