• IRPF.The Community of Madrid proposes tax cuts for 30,000 taxpayers
  • Assembly.Vox presents an amendment to the totality of the PP and Cs coalition government's downgrade in Madrid

The unpublished Coalition Government at the helm of the Community of Madrid faces this Thursday's first review of the legislature . It is up to Vox that the bill presented by the PP and Citizens (Cs) to apply three IRPF rebates begin the parliamentary process prior to its possible approval in the regional Assembly or be rejected with the votes of the opposition, which would mean attack on the water line of a bicolor executive, internally stressed and in a political minority.

What is proposed by the institution chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso is that tax rebates are made in the regional section of the income statement to people who care for elderly or dependent relatives, to those who apply for a loan to study at university and to young people from Up to 30 years who acquire a home. The estimate of the Ministry of Finance is that these measures would benefit 30,000 taxpayers that together would save 16.4 million euros a year .

In exchange for his vote in favor, Vox has demanded that the amount that the regional coffers would stop collecting with this tax cut is compensated by an equivalent reduction of money in grants to "associations, NGOs and beach bars". If you would not continue with your amendment to the whole of this proposal, which today will be discussed jointly with those that have also been presented in the left wing PSOE, More Madrid and Podemos.

The regional vice president, Ignacio Aguado, implicitly denied on Wednesday morning that there were talks at the institutional level with the radical right-wing party to agree on a containment of public spending as a toll for his support to the IRPF. "The Government did its work by forwarding this law to the Assembly and now it is the parliamentary groups that have to decide what to do," said the leader of the orange formation in the region.

However, Vox said last night that it had reached an agreement with the Minister of Finance, Javier Fernández Lasquetty, to "reduce ineffective political spending" and, therefore, guarantee his vote in favor of tax reform. "But it seems that Mr. Aguado wants to dynamit this agreement because he wants the prominence within his party and not watch over what interests all of Madrid," said his spokesman, Rocío Monasterio, who denounced the existence of an Executive "with two Heads who is not able to hold a negotiation because what is closed afterwards cannot be fulfilled ».

In the Ministry of Finance, on whom the IRPF rebate depends and also controlled by the PP, they had previously confirmed that they have been "working hard for weeks" and "discreetly" with the direct involvement of the president to obtain the necessary support for her fiscal project, which, they say, "requires dialogue and consensus." In addition, they pointed out that the reduction in expenditure that was being agreed upon would be "items with a high budgetary inefficiency" and that "in no case" would affect "acquired social rights".

As it happened with the pact that allowed the investiture of Ayuso, Cs tries to mark distances with Vox both in public and in private, although he needs his support so that the right-wing center joins a majority in the Assembly of Madrid. His spokesman, César Zafra, has insisted this week that in his group they will not accept "any kind of cut" , in allusion between lines to aid associations of women and LGBTI groups, and that "Mrs. Monasterio has to decide whether he wants to be with the left that raises taxes or with the liberals who lower them ».

PSOE, Más Madrid and Podemos, in turn, have submitted amendments to the entire tax measures bill because they do not share the philosophy of lowering taxes that would mean less resources to finance public services such as health, education, dependency or social services.

In his, Vox objected that the autonomous government should be "more ambitious in both concrete measures and scope", since it considers the reduction in three sections of the IRPF insufficient, and maintained that "if all spending commitments are maintained and income is reduced the deficit will increase ». The grade of the first PP and Cs exam will depend on whether an agreement is finally reached in extremis so that this position is modified.

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