An open door to division and territorial grievances. In the nationalist imagination, fiscal balances aim to express the difference between what the autonomous communities contribute and what they receive from the State.
The Catalan independence movement demands the "transparency" of the scales because, in its opinion, they will allow it to feed its story of a historically underfinanced Catalonia. Once the total amnesty has been achieved, and with the secession referendum on the horizon, both parties and part of the Catalan business community are pressing for a "fiscal pact"