2023-07-29 11:14:07
The ‘counselor’ for Economy and Finance, Natalia Masregretted that Catalonia “is harmed again” by the financing model, according to a statement from the Government this Saturday. The Government published this Friday the results of the 2021 model year clearance that show that Catalonia is the third community autonomous than more resources it raisesthe tenth most received and falls to the fourteenth and penultimate position if the cost of life is taken into account.
Specifically, Catalonia contributed a 17.7% more income than the average and the subsequent redistribution caused him to enter 2.1% less, while if the cost of living is taken into account, he received 12.1% below average. The data shows that each Catalan contributed 3,153 euros and received 2,848, which fell to 2,558 with the cost of living. The Generalitat has ensured that these data “show that the mechanisms of redistribution and leveling used by the financing model make the distribution of resources between territories not be fair“.
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But he has criticized that the current model is “unfair and expired” and has ensured that the Catalans pay well above the average and, instead, receive below. He recalled that the model should have been reviewed in 2014 and 2019, but that “no Spanish government, neither the PP nor the PSOE, has wanted to touch it”, and he regretted that it is the time that the system has been without changes for more years since that the first autonomic financing law was approved. He has assured that “this underfunding adds to repeated non-execution of State investments in Catalonia”, and recalled that in 2021 the Government executed 36% of the budgeted investments in Catalonia.
Precisely during the electoral campaign, the Socialists promised to address the reform of the financing model during the next legislature, although from the PSC they demanded that the Government be involved instead of leaving the chair empty in a debate that seems complex due to the different territorial visions .
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