Escrivá proposes a fiscal recentralization and limit the transfer of taxes to the CCAA

José Luis Escrivá,

Minister of Social Security, has today shown himself to be in favor of a centralization of fiscal policy, reabsorbing part of the tax powers that have been transferred to the autonomous communities.

The person in charge of Social Security has thus pronounced himself in an interview on Onda Cero one day after the

chaired by

announced the abolition from 2023 of

to "compete" with the Community of Madrid and to try to attract talent.

The Board calculates that this measure will reduce the burden of almost 20,000 Andalusian taxpayers and will prevent 5,000 directors or shareholders of large companies from leaving the community.

The Community of Madrid, chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso

, for its part, has turned fiscal policy into one of its bastions against the measures proposed by the Government from the central Administration.

In fact, Ayuso yesterday explicitly supported the measure launched by Andalusia, as well as

between autonomies as "good for Spain".

Faced with this line followed by the PP, Escrivá has pointed out that "it would be convenient to reduce the margin of the communities to decide fiscal policy."

This recentralization would be framed in "the options that have already been considered" that is, the fiscal harmonization that the Ministry of Finance, led by

, has promised .

"In Spain we are very installed in this transfer of taxes that generate undesirable drifts

like the ones we are seeing these days, Escrivá pointed out

for whom tax competition between autonomies is

that only occurs in Spain" precisely when

for the most vulnerable people affected by inflation".

The measure would affect issues such as the Property Transmission tax or IRPF sections, which are what the PP is using to underline its alternative strategy but which are also defended by government partners, who presumably would consider Escrivá's views on recentralizing taxes and limiting their capacity. of management, an attack on its principles.

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