Logroño, (EFE) .
This is one of the commitments that it has acquired this Thursday, within its challenge to achieve, during the next legislature, that “La Rioja is the autonomous community with the lowest taxes in Spain”, it has indicated in an informative meeting, in the that the general secretary of the popular people of La Rioja, Alfonso Domínguez, has also participated.
The purpose of this measure on Inheritance and Gift Tax is to eliminate the tax that currently must be paid when, for example, money is donated to a child who accesses his first home or when he inherits a heritage “worked and maintained” with his effort after death.
“The objective is to free families from this extra tax burden for a heritage that has already been previously taxed,” according to Capellán, who has influenced his objective of “reducing all taxes over which the autonomous community has powers” .
It is about facilitating that “families, the self-employed and companies can continue contributing, from economic activity, to the well-being and wealth of the region”, given that their commitment is “clear” to make La Rioja the most competitive from a tax point of view.
Income tax reduction
Another of his proposals is to reduce 3 points in the income tax brackets -0.5 for each of the first 6 brackets-, which will benefit some 163,000 La Riojan taxpayers, who will save some 40 million euros.
It has also promised to reduce 2 additional points for income of less than 40,000 euros, a measure that affects some 157,000 taxpayers, 96% of the total, and which will mean savings of about 38 million euros.
A La Rioja taxpayer who declares an income of up to 40,000 euros will save 2 points -0.5 for each section of personal income tax- and 2 additional points, which means “4 points of tax relief” on his income statement, he said, to Help family finances.
Domínguez added that the president of the regional government, the socialist Concha Andreu, “has raised taxes on all La Riojans several times”, given that she has increased personal income tax for middle incomes and has turned La Rioja into “the only community that This tax on the middle and lower classes has not been lowered ”.
It has also increased the Wealth Tax, the Inheritance and Donations Tax and has raised the sanitation fee -water receipt- by 34%, he has indicated”.
“Since Andreu governed, the poverty rate has risen by 40% and 65% of households in La Rioja have problems making ends meet”, according to Domínguez, for whom “La Rioja is the worst autonomous community in terms of inflation in the last two years”.