The Treasury already has its 'Amazon rate': it taxes home delivery and includes El Corte Inglés, Ikea and Carrefour

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The group of experts for tax reform has already presented its

model to María Jesús Montero .

And according to what is included in the White Paper that will guide the steps of the Minister of Finance in the tax field, this tax should not be imposed only on internet commerce companies, such as Amazon or AliExpress itself, but must also be extended to what they call "traditional trade".

For example,

, companies that are explicitly cited for the significant volume of orders and deliveries they accumulate.

The Committee recommends the option of establishing "a local tax for the occupation of the public domain that occurs as a result of home delivery of parcels", the document points out, to which it is added that "

, also applying to traditional commerce when the de facto estimate of the tax is made, to avoid discriminatory treatment.

The experts also analyze and take as a reference the case of Barcelona, ​​which is studying the implementation "of a tax on home deliveries of shipments by postal operators."

"The rate is justified for fiscal, economic, territorial, urban and environmental reasons" and "the taxable event would be the parking of mechanical traction vehicles on public roads for the provision of postal services."

Ada Colau proposes that the tax not be applied to “home deliveries in vehicles with less than four wheels [

], freelancers, merchandise distribution carriers between companies and delivery of packages at collection points.”

However, the experts do not fully share this point since they consider that "the activities or deliveries that should

and have a clear objective justification".

That is, it should be applied in an almost generalized way.

21st century taxation

This measure is part of that

, which is a substantial part of the order made by the Treasury and through which the Government wants to raise revenues substantially.

In the specific case of the Amazon rate, the experts do not offer a specific figure, although they consider that its individual impact will not be excessively high.

But if it is framed in this new taxation, the situation changes.

With the

, for example, the

euros during the past year.

The data was very far, since it barely reached 240 million.

But in the Ministry they consider that in 2022 the tax will behave much better, that is, that a much higher figure will be collected.

In addition, the Amazon company itself already announced in 2021 that it would begin to apply this figure and, very importantly, to pass it on to the user.

That user, to a large extent, is

, and if an additional fee is created directly for this company, Ali Express, El Corte Inglés, Ikea or Carreforur, it is easy to intuit that a new surcharge will most likely be applied to the user. buyer.

Although it should also be taken into account that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has completely changed the context in the short term, and

, but it has caused the postponement of the sharp increase in taxes, including the

or the environmental increases that the Treasury decides to take from the numerous recommendations that experts make in this area.

"Clearly uneconomical"

The Minister of Finance already made it clear when she received the documentation, and yesterday, her successor as Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, did the same by stating that the Executive does not contemplate "

."

"We value the work of the experts, who have contributed to setting an orientation for fiscal policy, but which is prior to this situation that is now happening," she stressed at the press conference after the extraordinary council of ministers that was held this Friday. .

This, however, has not prevented the reactions from the publication of the document from continuing and, also yesterday, the Catalan employers' association Foment del Treball described the proposal as "

" while showing their fear that the report would be " an excuse to raise taxes.

And "companies and families," they pointed out, "cannot withstand more tax pressure."

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