The Popular Party is presenting itself in these elections with a “plan for Catalonia” based on ten axes in which they give particular importance to measures dedicated to “reactivating the entrepreneurial spirit and recovering talent”. Measures of a liberal nature, among which the proposal to reduce the regional portion of personal income tax stands out, so that the total income tax paid by Catalans does not exceed 40%. With a focus on regional taxes, the training is committed to promoting the abolition of inheritance, donation and heritage taxes.
The proposal that the candidate Alejandro Fernández brings to these elections has three points that look at what the PP understands as a necessary expansion, with a “fiscal highway” to reduce the burden on Catalonia, the elimination of bureaucratic barriers and the attraction of talent On this last point, the PP proposes a zero rate for all new freelancers for two years who want to start a business in Catalonia.
Likewise, the electoral program advocates guaranteeing a “training check” for unemployed people who are over 45 years old. This is intended to facilitate rejoining the labor market under better conditions, as indicated.
The PP points out that since 2017 9,000 companies have left Catalonia and since 2018 there has been economic stagnation. A situation that has reduced Catalonia’s leadership capacity in Spain, they point out, and has placed Madrid in the lead. The populists are highlighting in the pre-campaign events that the Catalans are the Spanish citizens who endure the most tax burden and just yesterday Alberto Núñez Feijóo indicated that it is the community with the greatest debt, and with a high increase in the fiscal deficit
The economic axis is, therefore, one of the cards that the PP wants to play in these elections, in which the loss of Catalan leadership is linked to the process. And taxation in Catalonia is also related to the loss of the ability to attract investments.
The programmatic plan presented by Fernández also proposes a discharge of the bureaucracy of the Generalitat’s administration, and advocates the generalization of “positive silence” in bureaucratic procedures. In other words, the resolution favorable to the citizen if there is no response from the administration. It also highlights, in order to speed up the procedures, the promotion of the responsible declaration when starting a business, before the licensing regime.
Alejandro Fernández will present today the economic proposals of the PP to the College of Economists of Catalonia, proposals that, as a political message, do not only want to put an end to the “decline” that, according to them, has brought the process in this key, but to oppose the recipe to the policies of Pedro Sánchez in the Spanish Government and, therefore, to those that can be offered by the candidate of the PSC, Salvador Illa.
What is being put on the table with this plan, which, according to the PP, proposes “direct actions” that can be carried out, is to emphasize the regulatory capacity that the Generalitat has under the idea that the Catalans are the ones who are taxed the most they pay in all of Spain.
