The Minister of Finance,

María Jesús Montero

, has been forced to give up and budget for 3,000 million to pay the autonomous communities a VAT debt that he denied them in 2019. He has made the announcement to the regional Finance Directors at the Council meeting of Fiscal and Financial Policy, according to sources close to the meeting assure EL MUNDO. At the meeting, the minister has affirmed that she will also pay interest for the delay in payment and that she will include the item in the Budgets for 2022. It is a body that brings together the head of the Treasury and the counselors of the branch of all the communities . The Catalan Minister of Economy,

Jaume Giró

,

also participates this Wednesday

-after long absences from the Generalitat in this forum.

Montero thus gives in to the gale that was approaching him after the judicial victory of the Junta de Castilla y León last April.

It all starts with a change in the VAT system in 2017 promoted by the former Minister of Finance,

Cristóbal Montoro,

which should be compensated in 2019. But in that year, Montero refused to make this compensation, claiming that he was in office due to the electoral processes of the year.

The Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) estimated at 2,500 million what it should have paid that year

to the communities and, however, withheld.

However, the Supreme Court agreed with the Junta de Castilla y León last April by seeing clearly "the

violation of the right to financial autonomy of the Autonomous Community

As the latter rightly states in its application, the dysfunction derived from the fact that payments on account are paid in twelve monthly installments is notorious and, on the other hand, in the definitive settlement only the corresponding VAT collection was taken into account. to eleven monthly payments, resulting in an anomalous result. "The High Court ruled that" the principle of institutional loyalty in the performance of public administrations (article 3.1.e / of Law 40/2015, of October 1, on the Regime Law of the Public Sector) put in relation to article 103.1 of the Constitution would have demanded that said

Administration give a very different response to the claim for compensation to the

presumed

dismissal

that constitutes the object of this process ".

This tension over VAT is one of the tough points of the CPFF meeting in which the criticism of Montero does not come only from communities governed by the PP.

Previously, the Minister of Finance of the Valencian Community, the socialist

Vicent Soler

, has not achieved his purpose of an extraordinary equalization fund for the worst-financed communities like his.

Montero has rejected it and has even finally refused to put the idea to a vote.

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