Rectification by rectification. If the Government is willing to modify its tax on electricity companies to adapt it to Europe, the PP also rectifies its resounding no to the tax, which resulted in a negative vote in the admission for processing of the PSOE and United We Can bill, if it meets the European criteria.
The PP is willing to support the tax on electricity companies if the Government adapts its proposal to the one that Europe has proposed, that is, that it be about excess profits and not about billing, and that the proceeds go to alleviate electricity bills. households and businesses.
This was stated this morning by both the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, and the deputy secretary of Territorial Policy, Pedro Rollán, at a press conference held at the PP headquarters to present the Interparliamentary meeting that will be held in Toledo this weekend .
According to Rollán, if the Government rectifies, “the PP will support this initiative without cracks”, but will wait to see the Government’s rectification, because in the opinion of the PP, the approach of the president of the Commission, yesterday in Strasbourg, ” it represents an amendment to the totality” of the tax designed by the Government.
Thus, for the PP, it should be considered, not as a tax, but as a rate, whose beneficiary will be the consumer, and not on billing, but on the differential of extraordinary increase from 20%, that is, Rollán said, endowing the tax with a final character, “which allows lowering the price of electricity and gas. “We want the tax
special is reflected in the invoice and not that it goes to the box of the
Government”, stated Cuca Gamarra in an interview on RNE.
Gamarra points out
The PP fears that, as it is in the current wording of the tax, the Government intends to collect even more, and that in the first seven months of the year it has collected 22,200 million euros, due to the increase in the price of products, an excess of collection that does not affect the citizens, say the popular.
Regarding the tax on bank profits, which also contemplates the initiative of the PSOE and United We Can, neither the Government says anything about whether it will modify it, nor does the PP say anything about its willingness to support it.
