The IMF paves the increase in taxes on fuels that the Treasury is preparing in full price escalation

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) endorses the increase in taxes on fuels that María Jesús Montero aspires to.

In the report on the Spanish economy published this week, the agency points out that Spain has "margin" for a "more ambitious" fuel taxation, and clearly proposes a "

".

To

and also to

.

In this way, the IMF supports one of the main lines of work of the group of experts for tax reform, who have to deliver the document with their conclusions at the end of the month, and goes even further than what the Minister of Finance wanted reflected in the General State Budgets (PGE) this year.

The opposition of the PNV forced Montero to eliminate the rise in diesel at the last moment, a measure that he even quantified and promised to Brussels.

But even then, the Ministry pointed out that the action was only postponed, and 2023, the year in which the tax reform will be in force "at the latest", is the

.

However, from some areas of the Government itself and, specifically, from the Ministry of Agriculture,

.

The reason: that the price of fuel is at

and an increase in taxes would only increase the burden already suffered by transporters, taxi drivers and, of course, farmers.

All of them represent very important fishing grounds in which other parties are very willing to fish.

An obvious example: that of Vox and the farmers and ranchers.

But an increase in the prices of gasoline and diesel would also affect,

, the same ones that Montero always said he would not raise taxes.

In fact, the IMF recognizes that the impact of the increase would be "heterogeneous" and that, in addition, it would have important consequences for "rural households" given that their spending on fuel is greater as they have to travel "longer distances" and have " limited means of public transport.

The document from the body led by Kristalina Gueorguieva also reflects on the fact that in Spain, like other European countries, "

."

"These lower costs increase the demand for diesel cars, which represent around 60% of the automobile fleet in Spain," explains the Fund, when precisely "diesel has a higher carbon content" and offer "worse behavior than vehicles of gasoline in terms of pollution.

That is, it

when what is precisely sought is to reduce emissions.

And it is that these tax modifications, which are promoted by the IMF and studied by Montero's experts, are part of what is called green taxation and which seeks to raise tax revenues by penalizing the most polluting behaviors and activities.

Along with these actions, the tax reform group has also worked on the tax harmonization that the Minister of Finance has been pursuing since she arrived at the Ministry.

The specific proposal will be known shortly, but what seems certain is that

, just as the Community of Madrid, Andalusia or the Region of Murcia do in some of the taxes. transferred.

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