Javier Fernández-Lasquetty: "The Government uses the crisis and the war in Ukraine to carry out fiscal authoritarianism"

Let's start with the Tax on large fortunes. Does Madrid refuse this path? This government uses the crisis and the war in Ukraine as an excuse for fiscal authoritarianism, just like the pandemic, it looks for any excuse to impose an ideological agenda that is increasingly far-left. This is an uneconomic, unfair tax that would be an economic disaster. Are they going to appeal it too? We are going to

Let's start with the Tax on large fortunes.

Does Madrid refuse this path? This government uses the crisis and the war in Ukraine as an excuse for fiscal authoritarianism, just like the pandemic, it looks for any excuse to impose an ideological agenda that is increasingly far-left.

This is an uneconomic, unfair tax that would be an economic disaster. Are they going to appeal it too? We are going to radically oppose this tax and much more if it interferes with transferred tax matters.

But Sánchez and his Minister of Finance for what they have always gone for is not for Heritage, it is for Inheritance.

They want to give everyone the fiscal hack, that's why they talked about harmonization and now Escrivá is asking for recentralization. Do you see a recentralization possible?

The Government itself corrected Escrivá. We are against it,

We do not want them to end our tax cuts over these 18 years, which have meant a saving of 60,000 million euros.

That is why we send to the Assembly a bill for the Defense of Fiscal and Financial Autonomy, to express with the greatest institutional intensity to what extent the Community of Madrid is going to be against it.

Some socialist communities are already lowering or considering lowering taxes.

The socialist leaders are telling Pedro Sánchez that any idea of raising taxes is detrimental to them electorally, because of course it will not be Ximo Puig who, out of conviction, announces the deflation of personal income tax.

But he knows that people are against raising taxes and the best thing to do is lower or deflate them.

Can these tax cuts mean a reduction in basic public services? What we see is a parallel tax cut with growth and better public services.

There are many more hospitals, schools, doctors... It is a lie on the left that lowering taxes puts public services at risk, just look at Madrid. It is true that waiting lists have increased, public schools are worse off situation... To deny the evident improvement of our public services is to deny the light of the sun.

One can, like the PSOE or the extreme left, deny the evidence, but the people of Madrid do not vote for them for a reason, because although they say that we have been dismantling Health and Education for 20 years, there are more and more doctors and schools and people can choose.

We have to keep improving, there are challenges,

ANTONIO HEREDIA

Is your idea to attract large investors like Andalusia? I don't think Juanma Moreno says that, this is not a zero-sum game.

If you create conditions where companies can generate more activity and people have more resources, there is growth that benefits everyone.

That is the key to the growth of Madrid, more than double the national average, not that there are processions of billionaires dragging trunks with jewels. Is deflation really going to give people purchasing power? It will mean a tax saving of 190 million , which added to the half-point drop in personal income tax, is 530 million left by its owners, who know better than us what they have to allocate it to.

The Government has approved this year the largest historical expenditure in its Budgets to combat inflation.

Should that be the model? On the contrary,

that debt-financed profligacy causes inflation.

They are preparing to spend 55,000 million more than before the pandemic without counting European funds and the debt has grown 330,000 million due to the addiction to public spending.

That is the drama of Spain. In the end it is affecting all Western countries. But in none like Spain has spending and debt grown.

Of the large countries it has the highest level of inflation, double that of France, due to the waste of this government.

You, in your only Budgets, also triggered spending.

Are they going to change that trend? We are preparing them, so I can't say anything.

But they will be some Budgets to finance all the commitments being prudent and with a growth in Health and Education.

We are not in the public spending madness of Pedro Sánchez.

Why your opposition to the European tax on electricity companies? We do not believe in demagogic taxes that will affect the price in one way or another.

And what Pedro Sánchez proposes is much worse, but in any case the response to the energy crisis has to be to lower taxes, we are willing to renounce them and support alternative ways of generating it, we cannot continue penalizing ways of producing energy.

The Government could also redirect part of the European funds to deal with the added costs, like other countries, which is more efficient.

The president of his party would support him if the government changed him. That is a conditional, we don't know if the government is going to do it.

Does the withdrawal of the Wealth Tax essentially benefit the upper classes?

It is a profoundly mistaken tax introduced by the ferocious social democracy of the 1980s and which gradually disappeared because it did not collect anything.

In all Andalusia, 90 million and it is spoken as if the welfare mechanism depended on it.

That is lying to people on a grand scale.

France was the last to abolish it because thousands of assets went to Miami, Portugal or Ireland... Some of these territories operate almost like tax havens. In Madrid we have been without this tax for 14 years and I do not see this populated by millionaires from other places.

I see that Madrid is attractive for investment and economic progress.

People in their 30s come here looking for a place to grow their business.