The polls that the PP has give it many possibilities of being able to govern, and according to the polls that favor them, prudence is imposed in the popular leadership, especially in economic matters, and specifically in tax reduction. Experience encourages them to do so, and it is that they are still reminded, especially in his electorate, that Mariano Rajoy promised a tax cut in the electoral campaign and when he came to the Government he raised them, in his first decision as President.
So, the crisis caused by the real estate bubble and the deficit found by the Rajoy government, which was more than 11 percent, when what his predecessor declared was 8, was the justification given by the popular Executive for December of 2011 to raise the IRPF instead of lowering it, as was his commitment, which he did not do until the end of the legislature.
Now, Mariano Rajoy's PP is healthy and emphasizes that the commitment is not to create any taxes, and lower them when they know how the accounts are. "I would like to say that we are going to lower taxes but we have to get to see what we find," stressed the PP's economic vice-secretary, Juan Bravo, at an informative breakfast organized by the Executive Forum, in which he stressed that he can ensure it is that a PP government will not establish “any tax”.
Juan Bravo's thesis is that taxes "have to be oriented towards something" and for this reason, if the PP comes to power, it will not create any new taxes, although it cannot commit to lowering them, because "we have to get to see what we are”, in particular if the amount collected for some of the latest taxes created has to be returned or if milestones of the Recovery Plan are not met.
Juan Bravo refers to something that Alberto Núñez Feijóo highlights whenever he can, that the recently created taxes on electricity, banking and especially the so-called tax on the rich, can be declared unconstitutional, in fact the PP intends to file an unconstitutional appeal. Feijóo stresses that even what is charged for these taxes "has to be returned by a PP government."
The economic manager of the PP guaranteed that if Alberto Núñez Feijóo arrives at the Moncloa Palace they will not establish new taxes, so that citizens will be "the same or better", but in no case will their tax situation "get worse".
Since Núñez Feijóo came to the Government, the PP has made a banner of reducing the tax. In fact, one of the first measures taken by the new president of the PP was to send an anti-crisis plan to Pedro Sánchez, which included not lowering personal income tax rates, but rather deflating the rate, so that the excess collection obtained by the Government because of inflation, returned to the pockets of citizens.
The PP also defends the abolition of the wealth tax, and in fact the autonomous communities governed by the PP have made progress in this direction, so that most of the autonomous governments hand over to the Popular Party or have reduced this tax to 50%. %, as Galicia has done, which promises to continue in this line until it is suppressed in the legislature, or has been eliminated, as is the case in Madrid and Andalusia.
