Foment asks the Government to correct the impact of inflation on personal income tax


  • Sánchez Llibre insists on his criticism of Ada Colau and calls her urban policy “arrogant” and “not very democratic”

Workforce Development ask the government deflate personal income tax to prevent the current general rise in prices from having a double impact on the purchasing power of workers and triggering the cost of labor for companies. The president of the employers’ association, Josep Sanchez Llibre, has stated that not matching the evolution of prices to the tax burden of employees would be “cheating taxpayers”, as stated at the entity’s general meeting held on Monday. The business leader has also insisted on his criticism of the urban policy of the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colauwhose attitude has been defined as “authoritarian”, “arrogant”, “undemocratic” and “ideologically sectarian”.

Sánchez Llibre took advantage of the Foment del Treball general assembly to redouble his message that in the current situation a “competitive tax ecosystem” is more necessary than ever. What does this mean? Eliminate the wealth tax -which he has described as “confiscatory”-, “harmonize downwards” the inheritance and donation tax -in Madrid it is discounted at 99%- and, in the short term, deflate personal income tax on wages.

What is deflating income tax? That the Administration accompanies the tax liens to the current moment of generalized price increase. In other words, if a worker receives a salary increase, for example, by 3% and after that increase it jumps from one quotation tranche to another, the Government applies the necessary reductions so that it does not become a ‘poisoned gift’ and said increase ends up being consumed in taxes. “By deflating and returning the excess collection to taxpayers via personal income tax, we would avoid loss of purchasing power of wages,” said Sánchez Llibre. According to his calculations, during this first trimester Tax authorities has already raised €10 million added for inflation.

25% of industrial GDP in 2030

Less taxes and more industry. This is the binomial in which the demands of Foment del Treball currently move. The objective set by the employers is to strengthen the Catalan industrial fabric again and for it to gain weight in the GDP as a whole, so that in 2030 it will once again be at 25%. It is currently at 19% and falling. Sánchez Llibre has been critical of the environmental restrictions that both the Government and the Government impose on the activity of the secondary sector and has considered that they should “rethink the industrial energy transition, so that it is fair, competitive and efficient”, he declared.

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In this sense, the bosses defend feeding this industrial growth with more nuclear energy and North African gas. On the one hand, the business leader has advocated extending the deadlines for closing nuclear power plants, going from the current deadline of 2027 -“because we all know that it will not be possible to comply”, he has declared- until 2035. And In order to reduce Europe’s gas dependency on the Russian market, Sánchez Llibre has once again insisted on reactivating the gas pipeline project Midcatwhich would transport gas from North Africa to central Europe, passing through Catalonia and crossing the Pyrenees.

The Foment-Colau pulse continues

Relations between the historic Catalan employers’ association and the mayor of Barcelona have been very bad for years and have not improved, as has been made clear in Sánchez Llibre’s speech this Monday before the entity’s assembly. The president of Foment has promised to continue being “very proactive” in the fight against “the economic decline policy imposed by force by Mrs. Ada Colau”. From the business entity they are against the expansion of the ‘superilles’ to the detriment of private transport, as well as the freezing of licenses for new hotels or the opposition position of the mayor to the expansion of El Prat airport, among others.


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