The Government is not studying a new specific tax on fuels, along the lines of the so-called 'green cent', to finance the cost of renewable energies and stresses that, although it sees a "favorable context" to the use of fiscal mechanisms "especially in the energy sector" to contribute to environmental policy objectives, it will not take any "unilateral" measures outside the European Union.
In two parliamentary responses to the 'popular' deputies Adelaida Pedrosa and Antonio Erías, to which Europa Press has had access, the Executive points out that "the possibility that "problems that could arise in some sector" of the Spanish energy market could be solved "through the transfer of tax resources originated by the consumption of any other energy products" is not valued.
It also highlights that the Ministry of Economy and Finance "has not prepared any proposal" in the sense of creating a new tax that taxes fuels and butane gas, or a special one for nuclear power plants, "nor has it specifically reported on them to date" and recalls that, in relation to tax revenues, "governs the principle of cash unity or principle of non-allocation of income to specific purposes".
CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE
The creation of this tax was one of the reasons that led the 'popular' to vote against the final report of the Subcommittee on Energy Strategy for the next 25 years, which among its recommendations stated that "the possibility and convenience of the costs of renewables being borne by all consumers of the Spanish energy system should be analyzed."
Antonio Erías, spokesman for the PP in this Commission, warned that the PP "radically" rejects this possibility in the current context of crisis. Both PSOE and CiU have since insisted that it is "totally false" that this report raises a new tribute.
The Government considers that the introduction of a tax or other taxation measures on energy products, especially hydrocarbons, "must be assessed with caution" from different perspectives, such as the impact on tax collection or the effects of the consumption of these products on the environment, but also the impact it may have on the "reactivation of the economy in the current conjuncture".
THE GOVERNMENT IS "REFLECTING"
Despite the refusal to this specific rate, the Executive slips that there is a "favorable context" to the use of fiscal mechanisms to contribute to the achievement of environmental policy objectives "especially in the energy sector", so "in Spain the task of reflecting is being carried out" on what changes can be introduced.
However, the Government considers it better "not to act unilaterally", as other Member States of the European Union have done, and will wait for the European Commission to present its new proposal for a Directive on product taxation, although it has not yet been presented or any draft of it is available. (EUROPA PRESS)
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