{"id":266227,"date":"2025-07-15T06:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266227\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:27:11","slug":"spain-takes-a-first-step-towards-controversial-catalan-financing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266227\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain takes a first step towards controversial Catalan financing scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

MADRID \u2013 Spain and Catalonia\u2019s regional government jointly unveiled a proposed fiscal scheme for Barcelona on Monday, amid concerns that the \u201cunique\u201d financing plan could undermine the principle of solidarity among the country’s autonomous regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The proposal would gradually grant the Catalan Tax Agency full authority to collect, manage and spend its own taxes. Unlike the current model, which is based on regional expenditure needs, the new framework would focus on revenue and shared responsibility.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe are moving from a model focused on expenses to one that looks at revenues and is based on co-responsibility,\u201d said Councillor to the Catalan Presidency, Albert Dalmau, after Monday\u2019s meeting in Barcelona.\n<\/p>\n

\nPushed by the left-wing separatist ERC, the proposal would require an absolute majority of 176 votes in Congress to reform Spain\u2019s Organic Law on regional financing.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhile ERC president Oriol Junqueras claimed that a vote will be held this week, \u00c1ngel V\u00edctor Torres, Spain\u2019s Minister of Territorial Policy, has suggested that talks will resume after the summer<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe plan is opposed by both the conservative opposition and the right-wing separatist Junts<\/a>, which \u2013 unlike ERC \u2013 refuses collaboration with the central government and pushes for a Basque-style arrangement granting full financial autonomy.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe reform has reignited the national debate surrounding the principle of \u201c’solidarity\u201d \u2013 the system of interregional economic transfers that underpin Spain’s current tax structure.\n<\/p>\n

\nOnly the Basque Country and Navarre regions are exempt from this system due to historical rights.\n<\/p>\n

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