The rebel mayors charge again. The 31 municipalities that managed to twist the arm of the Government are now preparing two amendments to the General State Budgets to demand an extra 8,411 million euros to avoid the bankruptcy of many consistories. This is revealed to EL MUNDO by sources of the group of mayors […]
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Montero announces that the Government will lower the VAT on masks from 21 to 4%
The Minister of Finance has defended the General State Budgets, assuring that it is a “project of the country, not of the Government.” “They lend”, he said, “confidence and certainty in the face of discouragement and hope” and this despite the fact that both the Bank of Spain and the AiRef have labeled them outdated […]
Ada Colau announces a plan to pedestrianize the center of Barcelona
The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has announced that the superblocks will extend to Eixample, with the conversion of 21 streets in the district into green axes, one in three, and with the transformation of 21 intersections into squares, a 10-year plan that will begin to implement this mandate in four streets, with an initial […]
The Government rejects to lower the VAT of the masks because it would suppose “1,568 million less of collection”
The Government has rejected reducing the VAT on masks from 21% to 4% after calculating that the measure would cause “1,568 million euros of lower revenue per year.” The Executive has also dropped the request to finance PCR tests for the self-employed, SMEs and security forces and bodies, as well as all health services personnel, […]
Tension in the Government due to the collapse in the system of aid to the self-employed due to the coronavirus
The Minister of the Presidency and spokesperson for the Catalan Government, Meritxell Budo, has today apologized for the collapse of the platform to request the help of 2,000 euros for 10,000 self-employed workers against the coronavirus crisis and has assured that the Generalitat plans to expand it: “We regret that it has not worked as […]
Montero adjusts accounts with the municipalities in the Budgets after the municipal rebellion
The Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, adjusts accounts with the municipalities in the draft General State Budget for 2021 after the defeat it suffered last September in its municipal decree. The accounts sent to the Congress of Deputies for next year do not include the unconditional fund of 5,000 million that she herself considered […]
They again forgive the Generalitat a debt of the IBI of the Barcelona Olympic Channel ’92, whose management is investigated by a judge
The Castelldefels Town Hall (Barcelona) has once again condoned the Govern a debt of Real Estate Tax (IBI) for the Canal Olampico, located in the coastal town. The Generalitat is the owner of the facility built for the Barcelona Olympic Games, but it still has not been transferred to the local administration 28 years later. […]
The PP starts another municipal riot for Montero
The Popular Party has started a new municipal revolt against the Minister of Finance, MarIa JesÃs Montero, after which it unleashed a historic parliamentary defeat of the Government last September. The Vice President of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and Mayor of Estepona, Josà MarÃa GarcÃa Urbano On Tuesday, he sent a […]
The ‘trap’ of regional financing that can drown Andalusia after the pandemic
The budgets of the Andalusian community allocate, every year since 2011, 233 million euros to pay the mortgage that the errors of calculation of the Government of Josà © Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero in the previous economic crisis left in the coffers of the Board. The then socialist executive failed miserably when it came to making […]
Ada Colau does not return the extra cost charged with a tax in 2019
The extension of a tax of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) to owners of buildings in the regions of the Western Valles and Baix Llobregat caused a stir in 2019. Thousands of complaints were then filed, promoted by the Unified Non-Tribut AMB Platform. The entity prepares another massive campaign of resources and calls for […]