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The coalition government of PSOE and United Podemos has clashed again today due to fiscal policy. A slight but very noticeable stumbling block between the spokesperson for the Executive and the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, and the second vice president, Pablo Iglesias.

He insists on the creation of a new tax on great wealth to help alleviate the economic and social crisis caused by Covid-19, a kind of reconstruction tax, which yesterday he defended again in the parliamentary commission created 'ex profeso' to study proposals. And Montero is adamant that the Executive's approach is to pay more who else has but does not contemplate the creation of new tax rates.

In fact, Unidas Podemos has brought its idea of ​​a tax on large fortunes to the Commission for Reconstruction . It seemed the way to be able to give way to that claim without that implying a commitment for the Government. But today Iglesias has fueled the controversy with public recognition, in the press conference after the extraordinary Council of Ministers that has approved the Minimum Vital Income, that there is "debate" and that there will be "different proposals" in the Tax Executive. Little by little, the vice president is gaining space in this matter.

Iglesias has appealed that the coalition agreement contemplates providing solutions to the lack of income in terms of "social justice" and has normalized the internal discussion on fiscal policy, to which he himself has given a letter of nature, as something "sensible, healthy and logical. " He has even assured that the initiative on new fiscal measures will not only come from the Government but also from the commission for the Reconstruction of Congress, where Podemos has launched its proposal, because, it has indicated, it is "a country debate".

The position expressed by the second vice president has led the Minister of Finance to take the floor "as head of the fiscal area" to narrow differences and emphasize that the Executive is "in agreement" with the objective that "those who have more, more contribute "to achieve a" more progressive and fair "tax system. He then reiterated the same thing he has been saying since Podemos opened the public debate on the tax on large fortunes. There is a "clear road map", which is the programmatic agreement with proposals such as a minimum rate of 15% in Companies , an increase in personal income tax on large incomes, a 1% rise in Equity or the equalization of gasoline and diesel, among others. And that also, he recalled, was embodied in a pact in this year's unborn budgets.

Fight against tax fraud

The Government has indicated, "it is clear that it has scope to increase the collection capacity" with the revision of taxes and the creation of new figures, in areas such as the environment in which there is a "great differential" with Europe.

In this sense, Montero does not move one iota from the agreement reached with Podemos on a more equitable tax reform and maintains that the chosen fiscal figures "are issues that are instrumental for the Treasury area." And it has highlighted again the need for a revision of the Corporation tax so that SMEs do not bear as much burden as opposed to the contribution of large companies.

The minister has also pointed out that the margin to increase the collection capacity "does not only pass through the revision of fiscal figures or the creation of environmental figures, but also in the fight against fiscal fraud, evasion and the shadow economy." Montero announced that the Executive is "about to approve" the new law to fight tax fraud, which we want to see soon in Congress because it is complementary to the tax review. "

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