The president of the Valencian Business Association (AVE), Vicente Boluda, has asked the president of the Generalitat and PSPV-PSOE candidate for the Presidency, Ximo Puig, a tax reduction so that companies in the Valencian Community “can be competitive compared to those of other autonomous communities.
“We would like for all of us to play by the same rules and for all of us to be equal”, Boluda pointed out, in statements to the media, before a meeting between the businessmen and Ximo Puig, within the framework of the meetings that AVE will hold with the different candidates for the Presidency.
Boluda explained that the AVE employers have a ten-point document that they want to address with the different candidates for the Presidency of the Generalitat to deal with “health, financing, water, taxes, infrastructure” and other issues that affect to civil society.
In this sense, he has indicated that the meeting with Ximo Puig will serve them to “listen” more than ask, and that what they want is for “things to work”. In this sense, he has stated that they would like to hear “that we had a lot of water, that it rained every day, that we paid almost no taxes and that sanitation flowed tremendously.” “Everything the Valencian Community needs”.
For his part, Ximo Puig has highlighted the progress of the Valencian Community in fiscal progressivity and the work to avoid “a penalty” for the companies of the Valencian Community against ‘fiscal dumping’.
“This invention of tax hell is a lie, it is simply an insult to intelligence,” said Puig, alluding to the term used by the “popular” candidate, Carlos Mazón, in his presentation on his tax reform proposal.
Ximo Puig thanked the president of AVE, Vicente Boluda, and his associates for giving him the opportunity to “listen” to them and highlighted the dialogue he has had with businessmen over the years and which “has fostered, among other things, stability and the improvement of the Valencian Community”.
Faced with AVE’s request for a tax reduction that makes Valencian companies more competitive and that allows them to play “by the same rules” as other CCAAs, Puig has assured that the Socialists “always” defend “that there must be tax harmonization on some issues that may imply ‘dumping’, and has pointed out that the Corporate Tax is resident in Spain and is the same for all the autonomous communities.
Regarding personal income tax, he has stated that “it is always a question that can be raised in a debate” and that what “was not sustainable was a situation in which the Valencian Community was installed, which as of 2015 was reversed”, in the one that the people with less income were the ones who paid more in Spain, and the high incomes contributed less than in the rest of the communities.
Puig has indicated that this is what has to be reversed and that “progress has been made in this fiscal progressivity and, at the same time, trying to ensure that there is no penalty for being here, far from it.” “This invention of tax hell is a lie, it is simply an insult to intelligence. In fact, the latest tax reform was approved unanimously in Les Corts Valencianes. That has not happened in any other community,” she remarked.
