The Ministry of Finance expects to pay this year to the autonomous communities and entities 103,000 million euros in deliveries on account of the financing system in 2020, 5% more than those initially reported last year, which will begin to pay this week, as well as another 10,955 million euros corresponding to the end of the year of 2018. On the settlement of VAT to the autonomous communities to compensate for the 2017 mismatch, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, recalled on Tuesday that the Government proposed in the project Last year's General State Budgets compensate the regions for the "damage" caused in 2017, when only 11 months of VAT were paid.

Montero added that the matter was "mocked" in the budget debate and was an "attempt at ridicule" stating that she accounted for 13 months of VAT. For this reason, he has said to call the "attention" that those who criticized and voted against the project that collected the payment of the month pending VAT, once it has transcended the budget year, continue to claim the compensation of VAT resources.

Thus, the spokeswoman of the Government and responsible for Finance explained that each autonomous government will be communicated the income that corresponds to them so that they know the monthly amounts they will have.

That caused the chain reaction of the barons of the PP, who charged against the Government. The president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for example, assured that he does not rule out "any possibility", including judicial means, to claim the central government to pay Galicia the 200 million that it owes for the last monthly VAT of 2017 .

"The tease is already being continued and begins not only to be in bad taste, but begins to be rude," said the Galician president when asked about this issue, and then add that the minister herself personally committed to pay this amount to Galicia "in an August meeting of the year 2018".

The general secretary of the Galician PP, Miguel Tellado, called the government "liar":

For his part, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has accused the Government of "mocking" Andalusia "by denying us the 537 million euros of VAT owed to us."

"We will not accept blackmail and much less that the money of the Andalusians is used to pay the mortgages of their investiture," said the head of the regional Executive in a Twitter account.

His counselor of the Presidency, Public Administration and Interior, Elías Bendodo, insisted that they will not stop claiming that money, until they get "the credit card pin":

Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, president of the Junta de Castilla y León, was also adamant with the Government:

Fernando López Miras, president of the Region of Murcia, spoke directly of theft:

López Miras also said that the Government has not given them aid for the DANA that hit Murcia and Levante last year:

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