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Its name is much less attractive and the media impact will be equally lower, but the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council that is held today is comparable to a major sporting or cultural event. One highly anticipated by the protagonists and that will mark what happens in the most immediate future. And in which, in addition, the positions of the participants are remarkably faced by one last reason: the autonomous financing.

After 17 months, this Friday afternoon the meeting of the communities will take place, with the usual exception of Catalonia, and with the objective of the Treasury to quell the rebellion that the PP communities have led and to which those of the PP have joined. PSOE for non-payment of VAT of December 2017.

Before the successive denunciations and threats, the Ministry directed by María Jesús Montero will propose to the regions the compensation of the 2.5 billion euros that they did not charge through the easing of the deficit . "A greater fiscal margin for the Communities", they explain from the Treasury, which today will also present a new deficit path for the coming years in which this greater possibility of spending for the regions will be contemplated.

However, sources from different communities governed by the PP already point out that they do not agree with this compensatory model. " It's more deficit and more debt, " they explain. " What we want is an income that compensates for the amounts that we do not receive, the tax money " that the citizens of the respective communities have paid, they add. That is, they will discuss and refute the proposal of the Treasury and that the confrontation seems safe.

The privileges of Catalonia

This point of confrontation will be joined by Catalonia and the "state honors" that according to the PP yesterday offered by the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez, to Quim Torra. This is denounced by the president of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, in the interview granted to this newspaper and this is supported by sources from other popular regions.

The fact that Sanchez offers Catalonia improvements in financing and more resources is something completely irregular, they are measures that should be decided in the Fiscal Policy Council and are a comparative offense , added from the PP.

Ximo Puig does not rule out going to court to claim VAT although he says he will act "with institutional loyalty"

The president of the Valencian Generalitat, Ximo Puig, does not rule out going to court to claim the government's 2017 VAT settlement although he has assured that his Executive will act "with institutional loyalty."

"We do not rule out anything, but in no case do we know where the origin of this issue comes from," Puig explained in an interview on Onda Cero, collected by Europa Press, in which he has made it clear that the problem "is not associable to the current minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.

In this context, the Valencian president has pointed directly to the Popular Party, which he has accused of leading an "operation" to focus the debate on the payment of VAT. "With a huge cynicism, the problem was created by them," he added.

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