Different business organizations have demanded today that the State pay for the so-called "recoverable paid leave and suspend taxes immediately to be able to carry out the sanitary measures without aggravating the situation of the companies. They have issued harsh statements after the words of the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, ruling out tax relief and that of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, asking employers not to pressure.

The president of the Catalan employers' association Foment and vice-president of CEOE, Josep Sanchez Llibre , has specified that the State must assume "75% of the labor costs of the recoverable paid leave in the event that the companies do not have the necessary liquidity" and during the period of mobility limitations to non-essential activities.

The business leader has criticized "the improvisation and haste" of the measures announced over a weekend and of immediate application in 24 hours, without providing sufficient margin to companies to organize and meet all their obligations to employees, suppliers and customers. For this important employer, "it will be difficult to count on the contribution of companies if, at the same time, exceptional, urgent and temporary measures that promote liquidity are not accompanied, and among them they have insisted on the suspension of VAT payment, the personal income tax , Corporation Tax and social contributions According to Sanchez Llibre, companies cannot pay for the permit "if the tax settlements are not postponed, nor the social security contributions, and if the liquidity still does not arrive."

Also the president of the Madrid employers' association CEIM and vice-president of CEOE, Miguel Garrido , are demanding relief measures. "In the face of a measure that is going to suppose the paralysis of practically all the economic activity in Spain , the Government has decided that the cost of the same is supported entirely by the companies , which will have to continue attending to the wages and social contributions of its workers (while they will not be able to produce or sell their products or services to obtain income, "states the CEIM statement.

He also criticizes that it was a "unilateral decision , without prior knowledge and consensus , neglecting the opportunity that social dialogue offers to improve a norm and reduce the negative effects that may occur in the business fabric and, above all, in employment " "Only a day after the dismissal was banned for justifiable economic reasons and a general revision was announced in the coming months, of the causes argued in the ERTES, even insinuating that employers were taking advantage of this crisis, the Government decided that the invoice for the cessation of activity be paid exclusively by companies already exhausted by the situation and that are making enormous efforts to maintain themselves, "adds the Madrid employers.

CEIM requests that an " immediate and automatic tax moratorium be granted on all taxes, fees and contributions that are due during the time of the state of alarm " and that those who have not been able to develop their activity in these weeks or have seen their performance drastically decreased. " Only if the central government is firmly committed to saving companies, can jobs also be saved and re-created when this crisis, and not just the state of alarm, passes."

For its part, another relevant organization integrated in CEOE, the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations of Metal, (Confemetal) expresses in a statement " its most absolute rejection of a measure that will not only cause a deterioration of the economic fabric difficult to recover, but Also, far from favoring the fight against the health crisis , it will complicate it , making work more difficult and less effective in the activities directly involved in the front line against the pandemic and those that give them immediate support. "

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