Juanma Moreno invites Catalan businessmen to pay taxes in Andalusia and the Government responds to “leave them alone”

The spokeswoman for the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Patrícia Plaja, assured this Tuesday that they will not enter into any “populist auction” with Andalusia after Juanma Moreno Bonilla, president of the Andalusian Government, invited Catalan businessmen to locate its headquarters in Andalusia after the tax reduction approved this Tuesday by the regional government, in which, among other aspects, the wealth tax is abolished. Patricia Plaja has called on the Andalusian government to “focus its policies on Andalusians and leave in peace the Catalans” and pointed out that “Catalonia will decide what taxes it requires taking into account the needs of its citizens”. The spokeswoman has assured that she is not afraid that Bonilla’s appeal will cause companies to flee from Catalonia.Moreno: “And besides, we are never going to become independent here, because we are a proud part of Spain”Moreno has made an appeal with the will of the executive region of adding large fortunes so that the Catalans “contribute” with their taxes to the community. “Here is your land,” Moreno told the Catalan businessmen whom he reminded: “In Catalonia there is an inheritance tax, not here; in Catalonia there is an estate tax, not here; and besides, here we are never going to become independent , because we are a proud part of Spain”. The Andalusian president has remarked that there are “plenty of arguments” for “many businessmen, capitals, families” to move their residence to Andalusia. According to Moreno, this package of measures should allow 360 million to enter the public coffers. 16,785 citizens will stop paying the tax, as indicated by the 2020 data from the “Tax Agency”. Moreno’s “revolutionary” tax proposal also includes the downward variation, of 4.3% less, of the first three sections of personal income tax. In this way, it aims to mitigate the effects of inflation.” We work to administer all taxes”, highlighted the spokesperson for the executive. The spokeswoman for the Government has also ruled on the approach made this Tuesday by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, on the possibility of recentralizing taxes to “avoid” “competition” between autonomies. “In terms of taxes, centralization is never the best option. Catalonia seeks to administer 100% of its taxes,” Plaja pointed out. Escrivá has considered it a “nonsense” that there is a fiscal struggle between the autonomous communities, and has blamed it on the “improvable” design of regional financing.