The regional Government incorporates the PP amendments on deductions for home care and aid to rural areas. EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Araba have opposed it. For the moment, tax harmonization with Bizkaia is maintained, in the absence of knowing what will happen in Gipuzkoa.
The General Meetings of Álava will approve the deflation of 2.5% in the IPRF for next year after the agreement reached between the regional Government (PNV and PSE-EE) and the PP.
The Finance Commission of the Provincial Chamber approved this Wednesday the opinion of the draft provincial regulation to modify part of the tax regulations in which this measure is included, thanks to the votes of the PNV, PSE-EE and PP, with the approval of the only member of Vox and the opposition of EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Araba.
PNV and PSE-EE needed the support of at least one opposition group to carry out this reform and have been negotiating until the last moment with the popular parties to reach the agreement.
In exchange for the PP guaranteeing this deflation, nationalists and socialists have supported five popular amendments with fiscal measures referring to rural areas and vulnerable groups.
Finally, the pact leaves aside the PP’s request that sought to “raise the PNV and PSOE proposal by an additional 0.5%”, to deflate 3% in Álava next year and “get closer to the real increase in prices “, with which, in the absence of knowing what will happen in Gipuzkoa, for the moment, fiscal harmonization with Bizkaia is maintained, by agreeing to a deflation of 2.5% of personal income tax, agreed in the last Basque Finance Council.
The amendments incorporated into the PP project increase the deduction for people with recognized dependency or disability up to 3% in total, increase the amounts for recipients of the Personal Assistant Economic Benefit (PEAP) “to help families with elderly or dependent people dependents”, up to 4.5%, and increase the deduction by 20% for ascendants who live in the same address, with the purpose of “helping families with elderly people in their care”.
Regarding the rural area, the opinion agrees that new entrepreneurs can deduct up to 3% in total, for those who start their economic activity, and doubles the reduction in the quota for people from Alava who live in towns with less than 500 inhabitants, to “alleviate the effects of depopulation in the rural area of Alava”, so the amounts of tax deductions will go from 107 to 200 euros.
The agreement endorsed by PNV, PSE-EE and PP this Wednesday will be ratified this coming Friday in the plenary session of the General Meetings of Álava.
Source: Eitb
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