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Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-00:05

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With the start of the income campaign, the Community of Madrid has dusted off the fiscal packages that the Ministry of Economy and Finance has yet to approve. And it does so at a time when the regional government seeks to contrast its model with that of La Moncloa with the debate on the autonomous financing system in the background. While Puerta del Sol is committed to a policy of lowering taxes and a multilateral system, Pedro Sánchez's Executive has accumulated 69 increases since his arrival and Catalonia requests a bilateral system similar to the one the Basque Country already has with the quota.

«Faced with the sanchista period where

the average citizen is going to allocate 50% of his salary to pay taxes

and the person who works is being deprived more, in the Community of Madrid we carry out tax reductions so that economic activity continues to grow, we can collect more and continue reducing taxes," said yesterday the Minister of Economy and Finance, Rocío Alberto, whose department submitted the report to the Government Council to begin the process of processing the tax deduction for foreign investors who want to settle in the Community. from Madrid.

A proposal that the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso already put on the table at the close of the last legislature and that could not be developed due to Vox's refusal to give it support. Last October, the regional president already committed in an event organized by Spain-Us Chamber of Commerce and Invest in Madrid, during her trip to New York, that this tax deduction, which will be applied to 20% of the investment of those who have resided for five years outside the national territory, will be launched throughout 2024.

Given that its processing is now beginning, starting with its release for hearing and public information, the deadlines could be extended until the summer, although the regional government hopes to have it completed in the current session period, and that the bonus would already be active for the second half of the year. According to the data managed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance,

it could directly result in 30,000 new taxpayers for the region's coffers

. Yesterday, Rocío Albert also alluded to the fact that "indirectly" it will attract "new investment" and "potential jobs." "That's harder to quantify," she remarked.

Furthermore, taking advantage of the start of the income campaign and also as a way to contrast her model with that of the central Government, the Minister of Economy and Finance recalled that this year taxpayers in the Community of Madrid will be able to add new deductions to their declaration. Among them, 50% of the regional portion of personal income tax for large families, which can be raised to 100% for special type families; an incentive of 500 euros, which applies to those in Madrid who are over 65 years of age and dependents of people with disabilities; a 10% bonus for those who rent a home on expenses such as the energy efficiency certificate; 25% on the interest on the mortgage loan contracted by those under 30 years of age, or the total interest also for loans intended to pay for a master's degree or degree in the Community of Madrid.

"We continue in the same line as in the last 20 years of tax relief to make the lives of citizens easier," Albert remarked yesterday, who estimated

the number of people who will file their income tax return in the capital in the context of 3.5 million

, a figure similar to that of last year.

Yesterday, an internal survey of the PP of Madrid was also made public, carried out by Gad3 based on 1,000 telephone calls, which showed 74 seats, four above those obtained on 28-M, and up to 51% of the vote for Isabel Díaz Ayuso and where the PSOE could not get off the ground and get out of third position in the capital. In one year, the socialists would lose 0.6 points and two deputies compared to the current ones (25 and 17.6%).

This survey, carried out between March 21 and 27, already with the

Koldo case

and the investigation for tax fraud against the partner of the regional president - who is not mentioned - at the center of the debate, shows that only on March 21 % of those surveyed consider the management of the central government in Madrid to be good, with 53% approving of the regional Executive.