“Congress thinks how to add”

“When someone resorts to a veto, he has lost the debate.” These are the words that the Second Vice President Yolanda Díaz has used Thursday, to censor the intention of the Ministry of Finance to avoid that the laws already registered in Congress that seek that the SMI not tribute IRPF. María Jesús Montero is determined to veto these texts, a prerogative that the government has with initiatives that affect the general state budgets, but add and the PP can raise that measure at the lower house table. And the Minister of Labor has confirmed that he will do so if he does not reach an agreement within the Executive.

“What the Minister of Finance does is block a debate in a camera that thinks how to add,” said Díaz in an interview in Ana Rosa’s program, in Telecinco. “The BNG, EH Bildu, ERC, the PNV and the PP agree with the position that I defend,” he insisted. The minister recalled that the veto capacity is a “privilege” that has a hacienda in this case but has added that in the background this veto seeks that “an initiative is not debated.” “We are going to lift the veto so that the camera can discuss, if later it says that the minimum wage has to be taxed, it is what the people have said,” he defended.

The Ministry of Finance confirmed on Wednesday its intention to veto the laws that are already registered in the lower house that seek to exempt the payment of the IRPF to the people who receive the SMI. Until now, the Treasury had adapted the minimum exempt from income tax to the increases in that minimum wage, assuming the cost it supposes for public coffers. But after the last increase approved in January, to 1,184 euros in 14 payments, Montero changed criteria and established that these salaries pay the income tax for the first time.

A decision that has the total opposition of adding, which a few days later recorded a text in Congress to establish by law that minimum wages never tax IRPF. It is the same position that defends the PP, although not for reasons of fiscal justify but for its ideological will to lower taxes. Those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo also registered a law in this regard, as well as we can, although according to the criteria of the second vice president these two initiatives do not fix the underlying problem.

In any case, add and PP can join their four deputies at the Congress table to raise the veto of the Treasury to those initiatives. Both forces have already confirmed that they will do so, which would cause a crack within the coalition government. Although the second vice president hopes to reach an agreement before having to resort to the Feijóo party to impose its position.

“Fiscal justice begins above and with a salary income of 16,500 euros a year has to happen exactly the same thing that the background happened, being exempt. It seems to me that they are the ones who have to contribute the most. I do not understand why the PSOE that in Spain says this in Euskadi agrees with the PNV the exemption to the salary income in 19,000 euros. The Basque workers are not equal to the Spaniards? Reflected Díaz in this morning’s interview.

Ask the Treasury to present the budgets

Díaz has also claimed the Minister of Finance to present the General State Budgets to Congress even if it does not have guaranteed support. “The government has an obligation to present to our country the public policies that it wants to defend and try to be processed,” said the intentions of the socialist part of not taking public accounts to the lower house if they do not have the necessary support.

These accounts currently have a difficult negotiation ahead, with harsh departure positions by the investiture block, on the right with Junts and on the left with Podemos, which has claimed the rupture of relations with Israel and the decrease of rentals by 40% by law to sit down to talk to the government. “The Minister of Finance must present the budgets, we have to give a boost to the country, talk about paid permits, resize the industry, we have to do it. If the government’s obligation does not come out later, it is to present them,” said the leader of adding in the government.