• Autonomous financing. The communities of the PP reject that the Treasury compensates the VAT through the deficit: "We want an income"
  • Collection: The battle of 2,500 million VAT: "Treasury snatches money from the Communities"

More deficit in exchange for the non-payment of the VAT settlement corresponding to December 2017, but also more deficit after the privileged treatment provided by the Government yesterday to Catalonia. The Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has offered the communities greater flexibility and spending capacity to the regions by way of compensation for these circumstances, but the answer she has obtained is a clear rejection by the regions governed by the PP but also for many who have the same political color as the Executive.

Popular regions had already advanced that they did not want a smoother path of deficit. "What we want is an income that compensates for the amounts that we do not receive, the tax money," sources from different communities governed by the PP explained to this newspaper, and they have kept it before and during the Fiscal Policy Council meeting. and Financial (CPFF).

" It is not necessary to know much about the economy. We are being given debt, but the resources at source were not debt . This must be returned, return what was ours in origin, it is not the same," said the Minister of Finance of Galicia, Valeriano Martínez. "We want them to pay us what they owe us, we don't want them to generate more debt, we want them to finance us accordingly," added the head of the Treasury of Andalusia, Juan Bravo.

But among many of the regions governed by the PSOE the proposal has not been well received, adding to the rebellion of the PP regions. " The deficit is not compensation for the VAT issue, which should have had an impact in 2019, " explained the Balearic Islands socialist adviser, Rosario Sánchez Grau. Juan Alfonso Ruiz Molina, head of Castilla-La Mancha and who has demanded the return of the "debt" that the Treasury maintains with the region .

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  • PP
  • PSOE
  • Maria Jesus Montero
  • Andalusia
  • Galicia
  • Catalonia
  • Castilla la Mancha
  • Public deficit

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