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At Unidas Podemos, they are determined that the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic will allow them to push on the path of fiscal reform that will allow them to establish a tax on large fortunes, which the purple people frame as "a reconstruction rate." His intention is that large fortunes do not make donations and pay more. In this sense, the proposal will be debated by the Commission for the Economic and Social Reconstruction of the Congress will be to introduce a new tax on large fortunes, affecting assets of more than 1 million euros and progressively.

This claim has been anticipated by the leaders of Podemos. Pablo Iglesias himself, second executive vice president, has championed it. Just a few days ago, in the Telematic State Citizen Council, he stated that this tax "is a consensus not only in Spain but in Europe" as a way for "the task of reconstruction to be carried out and to exercise solidarity with the homeland as It is done in serious countries, which is by contributing resources to the public coffers. "

The party that governs with the PSOE does not mention it, but there are very clear examples of who would be the recipients of its measure: for example, Amancio Ortega. "We have to recover what is common, and it is fair that those who have the most contribute in a special way to support those who will be most affected by the crisis, and to the collective effort so that we do not see ourselves in a similar situation in the future" .

The concrete proposal of the purple formation proposes that this rate replaces the current wealth tax and that it cannot be subsidized by the autonomous communities. The progressiveness they propose would make the usual home exempt up to 400,000 euros; a tax of 2% was imposed for net assets starting from 1,000,000 euros; 2.5% from 10,000,000 euros .; 3% from 50,000,000; and 3.5% from 100,000,000. "Most of the tax falls on the 1,000 highest estates," defend United Podemos sources.

At Unidas Podemos they consider that their proposal is justified insofar as "most of the tax will fall on the 1,000 highest assets" and that "the increase in income inequality that occurred during the previous decade in Spain has been translated also in a strong concentration of wealth. The 1% of the population with the greatest wealth account for a quarter of the country's wealth, while the poorest 20% only own 0.1% of the wealth. "

United Podemos is pressing so that in the context of the economic and social consequences that the Covid-19 epidemic is causing, they can accelerate the implementation of its proposals, as is the case of this Covid tax on the wealthy. For this they appeal to both Europe and the United States where, wielding bruises, "already before the COVID-19 crisis, proposals were being made to establish new progressive taxes on the greatest assets, as a way to reduce inequality and to obtain resources to finance the investments necessary to face climate change. "

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