Madrid (EFE).- Unidas Podemos has registered a bill this Friday in the Congress of Deputies to double the rate of the temporary tax on banks from the current 4.8% to 9.6%, considering that the existing up to now “has not meant less benefits” for the sector.
The initiative also establishes the creation of a Social Responsibility Fund to support vulnerable households endowed with the equivalent of half of the collection of the tax.
In this sense, it is intended to establish aid that allows these families to halve the increase in the monthly mortgage payment, calculated as the difference between the payment corresponding to the last review and the amount it had in February 2022.
In the same way, the training proposes implementing the same aid for commercial premises or offices affected by economic activity, when they are owned by SMEs or self-employed persons who do not have more than three properties of this type, have presented losses in the last year and maintain debts. with creditors according to specified parameters.
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In its statement of reasons, Unidas Podemos ensures that the temporary tax on banks, approved at the end of last year and for which financial entities whose interests and commissions exceeded 800 million euros in 2019 have to pay a rate of 4, 8% of the sum of net income from interest and commissions, “has not meant less benefits” for the sector.
Rather, “on the contrary”, taking into account the context of interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank, while mortgaged households find it “increasingly difficult” to pay their mortgage.
For this reason, it proposes doubling the temporary tax rate of credit institutions and financial credit establishments, from the current 4.8% to 9.6%.
The Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, spoke about this at the beginning of the month, who in a pre-campaign act for the municipal elections held in Galicia opined that the central government had “fallen short” with this benefit, which affects especially to the big bank, and affirmed that his party would ask to raise it.