Discrepancies within the government follow by the Taxation of the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI). This Monday, the Minister of Labor has returned to the load and has assured that there are only two ways to resolve this matter and that the SMI is exempt from paying in the Income Tax of natural persons (IRPF): fix it within the government or in the Congress of Deputies.
“There are two mechanisms to solve discrepancies. One, to solve it within the government, which I think would be the sensible thing, and the other is that tomorrow they will be described at the table of the Congress of Deputies several initiatives that will be urged to declare that taxation exempt, ”said Diaz during An interview in ‘The time of the 1’, in reference to the propositions of the law of adding, pp and we can.
Thus, he added that he could withdraw the initiative to add if an agreement is reached within the government but, if not, it will continue. “I respect the competencies of others. What would I like? Reach an agreement within the government. This is the legitimate. I never go to a negotiation saying that I am not going to move a comma, ”he said.
He also reiterated that he learned of the decision of the Ministry of Finance not to raise the limit exempt for the SMI to be exempt from IRPF through the media. “When I learned I was with Moncloa’s secretary of communication by my side and I think we learned both at the same time. This is not correct, I have not done this in my life, but we came from a Council of Ministers chaired by the President of the Government in which there was not a reference to the minimum wage”, He said, also adding that, the afternoon of before, the Minister of Economy said the decision was not taken.
Reproaches to the Treasury: “It is generating confusion with two concepts”
Yolanda Díaz, during the same interview, has reproached that the Ministry of Finance first said that the taxation of the SMI in the IRPF only affects 20% of the SMI’s perceptors, with a fiscal impact of between 150 and 200 million euros, and Then I correct it.
“Then he corrected and said no, the fiscal impact is superlative, there are 2,000 million euros. The same hacienda that has just given the electric taxes in our country. For doing pedagogy, what is doing hacienda is playing with two concepts. The minimum exempt and deduction we make to the minimum wage receivers and that is not correct and has nothing to do with. And that is where the Treasury is doing or generated or confusion with two concepts, ”he said.
Despite these criticism, he assured that he has a “great affection” to María Jesús Monter Economy side ”. In this sense, he pointed out that the government’s socialist wing should carry out “progressive fiscal policies, as indicated by the constitutional mandate”.
“1,184 euros is a meager amount to be able to live with dignity”
The Minister of Labor has also defended that the SMI is addressed to people “who are outside the collective agreement” and that corresponds to the “most vulnerable people.” In fact, he stated that “1,184 euros per month (the new SMI) is a meager amount to be able to live with dignity”, which contrasts with Montero’s statements that the minimum wage is a “worthy” salary and not a “rental subsistence ”.
Back with the position of the PSOE, he stated that “what is not from lefts is to lower taxes on energy, which have very high business margins, allow the rentiers in our country to forget 100% of the personal income tax, And that we have a societies tax that is more or less similar to the European, but that has two great holes that make us uniquely different, which are tax deductions and bonuses. ”
In reference to the latter, he has denounced that they allow a large tribute corporation to 3.8% but a small autonomous do so by 17.5%. “The change is produced by the Socialist Party, but I insist: What is not from lefts is to give the taxes on energy“He added, remembering that, in the last increases, the exempt limit has always risen.
Add advocate for a tax reform
In the last place, Yolanda Díaz explained that since ATMar they presented a tax reform in which the different sections of the IRPF are addressed, expressing that one of the current problems is that the salary income from 17,000 to 100,000 euros “pays the same marginal type” And that “is not fair.”
However, he added that Hacienda “does not share this” and that “when there is common sense in the street and there is not in the government, it is that something fails.” In this sense, he has assured that this measure “is protected by all political formations, in the hemicycle” which “wants to indicate things.” “That is, all leftist formations, of course the PP, I do not know what Vox thinks, but they are saying that it is not fair to do this. The debate is not whether to raise or lower taxes, it is who pays and who does not pay taxes in Spain, “he concluded.