In addition, the Lehendakari stressed that “reducing taxes in a general way is to limit social cohesion.” “The Basques like the Madrid model and the Basque businessmen too,” Iturgaiz assured.
The lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has expressed this Friday his opposition to the tax “neoliberal model” defended by the PP and has stressed that “reducing taxes in a general way is limit social cohesion“.
Urkullu has thus responded in the plenary session of the Basque Chamber to a question from the president of the PP + Cs parliamentary group, Carlos Iturgaiz, who has reproached the Lehendakari for having criticized the strategy of “fiscal dumping” promoted by the Community of Madrid by lowering some of the taxes it manages.
The leader of the Basque Government has recalled that, when Basque businessmen applaud the model of low fiscal pressure of the Government of Madrid, they do so “from their own interests“while he has to attend to the interests of the” whole of citizenship. “
The Lehendakari has insisted that his interest is to help achieve the best possible standard of living in a cohesive society through a “progressive and equitable” taxation that contributes to obtain resources to redistribute them through social policies and also offer aid to companies.
He has highlighted the need to have the necessary resources so that public policies are sufficient and sustainable and the general reduction of taxes, he has remarked, limits social cohesion.
Urkullu has indicated that he does not share that “neoliberal” model of the PP and has said that the CAV is positioned in the fiscal line of the “more advanced” European models.
For its part, Iturgaiz He has opined that what bothers the Lehendakari is that the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, lowers taxes and reduces the fiscal pressure on the people of Madrid to promote the way out of the crisis.
He has said that it does not make sense that in Euskadi the taxes are higher than those of Madrid and that with the Economic Agreement it is “incapable” of undertaking a tax reform together with the councils.
“The Basques like the Madrid model and the businessmen Basques too, “Iturgaiz continued, while in Euskadi what there is is” abuse “and” fiscal “punishment.
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