The Basque Finance Council will meet next Wednesday to analyze and define what should be the distribution between territories of what will be collected in 2023 and 2024 through temporary rates for banking and energy.
The Basque institutions will study this month what will be the fate of the more than 400 million that it is estimated that Euskadi could receive in two years through the new taxes approved in the last Mixed Concert Commission for companies energy and banks.
The Minister of Economy and Finance of the Basque Government, Pedro Azpiazu, has appeared this Friday in the Basque Parliament to report the result of said commission held on December 27 of last year.
Azpiazu has announced that the next February 15 The Basque Finance Council, in which the institutional levels of the community are represented, will analyze what the resources that will be obtained through these temporary rates will be dedicated to, so that later it can define what the internal distribution should be between the territories.
The counselor recalled that in the Mixed Commission it was agreed that the Spanish State will provide financing to the Basque Country to face the “exceptional economic and social consequences” derived from the war in Ukraine and the supply and supply problems due to the pandemic.
This financing will be 6.24% of the volume of revenue collected by the State, generated by temporary taxes on energy companies and banks in 2023 and 2024. In these two years, the Basque Country could receive between 400 and 450 million euros.
Azpiazu explained that the autonomous community must fully assume “the definition and management of those aids that the State finances exclusively with the collection of both taxes” that were defined as “patrimonial benefits of a public non-tax nature”, for which reason it was not possible the concertation as it has been done with the tax on large fortunes, also approved in the aforementioned commission.
will be the General Meetings that those that incorporate the tax figures into the foral systems be constituted in the three territories after the May elections, so that the haciendas “can begin to collect as soon as possible.”
To questions from the groups, Azpiazu expressed his hope that if there were any recourse against the temporary solidarity tax of the great fortunes the Constitutional Court does not rule against it and that the haciendas do not have to “go back” to the previous situation and return what they could have collected.
Source: Eitb
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