The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, on October 6.A.
Pérez Meca (Europa Press)
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced on Monday night that the Community of Madrid will appeal to the Constitutional Court against the tax on large fortunes announced at the end of September by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Huntsman.
The regional government (PP), which completely discounts the wealth tax, considers that the new state tax is designed to harm its fiscal policy, and that it invades its powers in tax matters.
For its part, the executive of Pedro Sánchez (PSOE and Podemos) accuses the Community of Madrid of betting on
fiscal dumping
to attract large taxpayers from other regions, and is committed to this rate, which will be in force in 2023 and 2024, and will affect large assets of more than three million euros, to collect a maximum of 1,500 million euros from of 23,000 large taxpayers.
“Are you going to appeal to the Constitutional Court against the tax?” Díaz Ayuso was asked during a nightly interview on Trece TV.
“Yes, we are going to do it.
Attacks the fiscal autonomy of the Community of Madrid.
(...)”, answered the regional president.
“The Constitutional Court is for when the government exceeds its powers”, she has argued.
“The attitude that is taken against the economy of Madrid is denounceable and reprehensible”, she has continued.
"It doesn't happen anywhere in the world that the government goes directly against its capital."
After Madrid's decision, it remains to be seen what Andalusia will do, where the government of Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (PP) has just approved the wealth tax bonus.
In addition, the technicians of the Ministry of Economy and Finance study all possible alternatives to alleviate the impact that the state rate will have on taxpayers in 2023 and 2023. As it is foreseeable that the Constitutional Court has not ruled by then on the resource announced by Díaz Ayuso, in the PP environment, theorizes with the possibility of using personal income tax to return to large estates what they have to pay through state tax, a route that the regional government could also apply if it decides to collect the tax again. by himself and compensate it through the income statement.
Asked about this by this newspaper, a government spokesman declined to give details, considering any assessment to be premature.
The clash in the Constitutional is the latest in a long list of disagreements between the central government and that of Madrid that is settled in court.
For example, the Community has already won the VAT lawsuit in December 2017 (which meant an extra income of 400 million for Madrid), awaits the solution to the dispute over deliveries on account in 2019 (54 million are at stake), has denounced in the Supreme Court the alleged "arbitrary" distribution of a minimal part of European funds, and has also brought the Baccalaureate curriculum to justice.
At the end of September, the autonomous legal services registered an appeal before the Constitutional against the decree of energy saving measures of the central government.
And during the pandemic, judicial pulses were common.
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