Fiscal Policy, Pending Subject
- After the official holiday period, the financial economic crisis remains with us, with its dramatic personal and social consequences. It is time for the policy to seek solutions, to get rid of market orders and to seek joint action to imagine and create new scenarios, as well as to generate economy to grow, create jobs and distribute wealth more fairly.
For that, of course, there are tools. One of them is fiscal policy, the pending subject. In particular, during this month the foreign institutions will discuss fiscal policy.
Against this backdrop, we are faced with the following institutional reality, which is decisive for carrying out another tax policy: The CAV Government is in the hands of the PSOE-PP, which has no fiscal competence, because the foreign institutions are the only competent in this matter. But in MEPs the approaches to taxation are very different. The PNV in Bizkaia and the pp in Álava are not in favour of raising taxes, while Bildu has already put on the table the rise in taxes in Gipuzkoa and has expressed its intention to re-establish some measures eliminated in the previous legislature. The employers are calling for a lower tax burden, they do not want to talk about wealth tax, because they believe it is "a matter of the past" and they do not want to raise corporate tax. Trade unions are calling for real tax reform so that those who have the most pay more and deal with tax fraud once and for all.
That being the case, and with the national emergency on top, a sincere, realistic and sensible attitude is needed. A tax policy that taxes the rich and allows fraud to be eliminated. If no agreement could be reached between the three Members, the Bildu approach in Gipuzkoa, for example, should be implemented.
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