One of the hottest debates in Spain is the issue of taxes. The general perception is that these are too high and one pays more than what one ends up receiving, an argument that has been rejected by different economic experts, from Gonzalo Bernardos to Yago Álvarez, who want to clarify that, really, 80% of the Spanish population receives more than they give in taxes by the State.
Pascual Ariño, a real estate investor, recently spoke about this topic (with at least 15 houses) who moved to Andorra and who assures that “in Spain you pay a crazy amount of taxes.” This was expressed in the last ‘laSexta
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“It is not normal for a self-employed person who invoices 1,000 or 1,500 euros to take away 21% of the VAT, which, by the way, I do not pay in Andorra,” he added, a fact that Gonzalo Bernardos contradicted, to which the real estate investor ignored to add that, in addition, you have to pay personal income tax, the self-employed fee (which will go up again) and that extra that almost all employees pay. self-employed workers for having an advisory service dealing with all the ‘paperwork’ issues, “because they don’t teach us financial education.”
“VAT, personal income tax, the self-employed quota and advice, because we don’t know about financial education and we don’t know how to file the income tax return, or taxes, or anything, what does that person have left to live on?” he repeated, a question he answered. Maribel Mesón, a retireebluntly with another question: “When you get sick, are you going to come to Spain to be treated by doctors you don’t pay?”
“It is a shame that a Spaniard like you is listed in Andorra”
Pascual Ariño, when asked by the retiree, clarified that in Andorra private medical insurance is only 30 euros per month and that a pediatric consultation for her son cost only 7 euros. “With this situation we are all going to have to go to Andorra because, you have gone to Andorra because you pay a lot here, right?” Maribel Mesón reproached him again, to which he repeated that in Spain taxes are “abused.”
Faced with this, the retiree insisted: “it is a shame that a Spaniard like you has to pay contributions in Andorra when we are here having hard-working and blue-collar people who come from somewhere else.” The scuffle did not end there and Ariño replied that “what is a shame is kicking people out,” clarifying that not only “those who have money” are leaving, but also multinationals, students or people who have just finished their studies, “which is even worse.”