dilluns, 20 de maig del 2013

Reason 37: Only way to stop getting a discriminatory treatment from the Internal Revenue Service and other services


For the past ten years, Catalonia has led the ranking of tax audits from 2004 until 2011. This is the main conclusion from the data that the Spanish government has made public after the ERC group asked Congress on this matter.

The Catalan Republicans have been insisting on this issue for more than ten years. They had the feeling, and it has been confirmed, that Catalan employers received more pressure from the Spanish Internal Revenue Service (
HMRC in the UK). So Catalans citizens, again, get an increased pressure that helps  to finance the rest of the state. According to these figures, in Catalonia there were 45,000 inspections, which represents 19% of all Spain.
During the period of the readjustment of the Catalan Organic law “Estatut” the pressure was the strongest, for example in 2005-2006 in Catalonia were 7,000 inspections while in Madrid in 5000 and received 4,400 Andalusia. 2012 is the only time that Catalonia is a leader in tax revisions, 3782 against 4172 in Andalusia.
But also other financial sources that in theory are set up to reinforce the law, hit Catalonia harder than other Spanish nations and regions: Spain has many more speed radars in Catalonia than in the rest of the Spanish state. The Circle of Catalan Business (http://www.ccncat.cat/en) reported that Catalonia there are installed 23.4% of fixed radars in Spain with only 7.4% of kilometers of roads, so that the Catalan nation has four times per mile more radars than the rest of Spain.
But the saddest aspect of this facts is not that Spain has been doing this for the past 300 years. The saddest thing (for them) is that they have no intention of changing anything. Today in the USA Obama has demanded Danny Werfel, official of the budget office of the Internal Revenue Service to resign. He is held responsible for doing something the administration is not suposed to do: To apply extra scrutiny to certain groups of society. In the case of USA, the target were conservative groups. The result of this: “he has to be held fully accountable and resign. Because the IRS as an independent agency requires absolute integrity.” Therefore he must resign.
Spain has been doing this for several years to Catalans and here nobody is asked to resign. Spain is different.
As a matter of fact, this kind of attitude has been going on ever since 1714, at least. Obviously there is here only one solution possible. With an independent state Catalans will not be extra targeted any more, and if they are, at least the money will not go somewhere else. Under Spanish rule I am positive this will never end. I think it will even get worse as Spain’s economy gets worse.

6 comentaris:

Anònim ha dit...

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Miquel Marzabal Galano ha dit...

Hi, Anonymous,
Thank you.
Your link does not seem to work.
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Anònim ha dit...

I think that's all bullshit: speed radars in Catalonia are placed by autonomous police, managed by autonomous government. I think you have to stop crying and, before asking for independence, put into jail Pujol and family who putted 2000M€ in tax haven paradises...
Big hug from Montréal

Miquel Marzabal Galano ha dit...

Hi, Anonimous, Can you give me the information proving that Pujol has got 2000 M€ in a tax haven paradise? Because that is what the Spanish press said during the last elections in Catalonia and they could not prove this was true (so it was not true). They could not give any proof of evidence. This was only a filthy way to influence in a negative way the results of the elections. But if you believe them, it's up to you.
Of course you are free to believe anything. Some people believe they even crazier stories.
Best regards,
Miquel

Anònim ha dit...

Mientes. Los radares que hay en Cataluña, los instaló la Generalitat ya que es una competencia transferida. No se puede ir por ahí con mentiras y sembrando el odio a todo lo que no sea catalán
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Miquel Marzabal Galano ha dit...

Thank you for your argument on the radars being put by the Catalan government. You will be right about this, but you are not right on the fact Catalan tax payers are sistematically being assessed more often than Spanish communities, this is not a lie.

The title of this article is about the Internal Revenue Service treatment to Catalan tax payers, not about the radars.
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya has been asking questions about this discriminatory treatment for years.
And this is being done by Madrid.
I am not such thigs as sowing hatred. This is your misinterpretation.
Please, right here in English.
Thank you.