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The Minister of Finance made it clear last Thursday in Congress that she will carry out a fiscal harmonization between the communities. It was a known objective, but the fact that María Jesús Montero presented it as one of the main axes of the Ministry for the coming months is its officialization. For this reason, the regions governed by the PP have already shown their total rejection of this measure which, they understand, will entail a tax increase and a reduction of their autonomy, as well as a comparative grievance regarding the benefits that the Government offers to Catalonia and Basque Country

"It is striking that it is intended to harmonize taxes assigned to communities, which would mean reducing their fiscal autonomy, while maintaining bilateral negotiations with Catalonia and the Basque Country by promising them more resources and more powers, breaking the principle of equality," they explain. to this newspaper sources of the Ministry of Finance of the Xunta.

In Galicia, since last January 1, all inheritances are directly exempt from taxes up to 1 million euros per heir, the Succession bonus is 99% in family businesses, and the type in the transaction tax and Legal acts is the lowest in Spain. Measures all of them that, they understand, are in danger with the "harmonization" of Montero.

"While they are going to give Social Security to the Basque Country and they are going to break the equality between all the Spaniards, the Government of Spain intends from October to make an ascent to all Madrid residents," said the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. "It intends to impose two taxes [in reference to Successions and Donations, and Patrimonial Transmissions] that were already forgotten and are anachronistic," added the head of Madrid, who also said that he will not remain "silent" before the "Government of oppression »by Pedro Sánchez.

From the Community of Madrid, a region that Montero has accused on numerous occasions of fiscal dumping and with which he maintains a confrontation that goes back to the years in which he was Minister of Finance of Andalusia, they point out that the harmonization that he intends would have a cost of 2,000 euros per year for each Madrid taxpayer .

And precisely with that same Ministry that he held for almost five years, Montero has also experienced some notable shocks that, most likely, will have new chapters in the future since, as sources of the Andalusian Treasury explain, they reject the tax increase.

There is little doubt, therefore, that the communities governed by the PP will try to stop and fight against harmonization and that, in addition, they will have Genoa's support. “ It is really absurd to try to cut off fiscal capacity through the homogeneous imposition of several taxes, while negotiating with Catalonia prerogatives,” concludes Mario Garcés Deputy Spokesman and Economic Coordinator of the GPP.

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