With a staging to exhibit unity, the representatives of the two families confronted —in a hidden way— in Vox; Jorge Buxadé and Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, have shelled this Friday the economic program with which the far-right formation is presenting itself to the next general elections. It includes the promise of a simplification of personal income tax to a single reduced rate of 15% for tax bases of less than 70,000 euros and an ordinary rate of 25% for higher amounts. Both will reduce four points for each child.
In other words, the larger the family, the less taxes regardless of income —if the ceiling is not exceeded. Thus, Vox’s economic bible for these elections is loaded with its ideological wars: a family with four children and a salary of less than 70,000 euros will not pay personal income tax.
Without the presence of the president of the party, Santiago Abascal, who this Friday opens the campaign in Valladolid —land where they first entered to form part of an autonomous government— part of the Vox leadership has warned that the measures that are included in their program have already been presented years ago in regional parliaments “but they have not been attended to”. The 15 pages that make up their economic program are articulated around the idea, as they have repeated on numerous occasions, that “before redistributing wealth, it must be created” at a time, they say, “of economic crisis and national shortages.” .
The three axes that articulate the ultra formation program are the “radical” lowering of all taxes, the “drastic” cut of unnecessary political spending and the “reinforcement” of infrastructures and public services. In this way, Buxadé has reported that his party proposes a zero VAT for the acquisition of basic necessities for families. After being asked if there is a catalog of these products, the Vice President of Political Action has referred generically to the products in the shopping cart “and those dedicated to the growth of children or the care of the elderly.
The same document also promises an elimination of VAT for the acquisition of the first habitual residence. Likewise, Vox intends to abolish the Wealth Tax, the Inheritance, Donations and Municipal Capital Gains Tax, and reduce the Corporation Tax.
