• Denounces the decrease in financing to the Third Sector, derived from changes in management of 0.7% of Personal Income Tax and 0.7% of Corporation Tax to finance entities and projects of social interest

The Popular Parliamentary Group has urged the Government, through a Non-Law Proposition in Congress, to maintain funds for social action NGOs to guarantee their work to help the most vulnerable, a task that has proved key during the pandemic.

Specifically, the Popular Group calls on the Executive to rectify “its proposal for changes in the management of 0.7% of the Personal Income Tax and 0.7% of the Corporate Tax to finance entities and projects of social interest , To maintain the system and the proportions in force up to now and to favor that the entities of the Third Sector of state social action have adequate financing to give a satisfactory response to the needs of the most vulnerable groups ”.

In the explanatory memorandum for this initiative, signed by the spokeswoman Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, the Deputy Secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, and the spokesperson for Social Rights of the GPP, Alicia Rodríguez, the Popular Group stresses that "now more than ever is needed consensus and confidence ”in firm, strong public policies, focused by and for citizens, thinking of the most vulnerable, but also of all those families that the crisis of COVID-19 has left them in a serious economic situation.

Despite this, "the Government of Pedro Sánchez, once again, has generated uneasiness and uncertainty, in this case with the planned changes in the management of 0.7% of Personal Income Tax and 0.7% of Corporation Tax to finance entities and projects of social interest ”.

As underlined by the GPP, “the entities that make up the Third Sector Platform are doing important work to mitigate the social consequences that the COVID-19 crisis is generating, often because the competent Public Administrations do not arrive, or because of the ineffectiveness and inefficiency in decision making of any of them ”.

For this reason, the GPP rejects the claim of the Vice-Presidency of Pablo Iglesias to modify the percentage management of both taxes: “As far as personal income tax is concerned, up to now, and according to a resolution of the Constitutional Court, the total collected through 0.7% of the tax was managed in 80% by the Autonomous Communities and in 20% by the State, but with the planned changes, the state entities will be able to manage more than 14% of what is collected in the Personal Income Tax, it is that is to say, a proportion 6% lower than the 20% fixed on the total for social action, and which amounts to 283 million ”.

"THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR CHANGES, AND LESS UNILATERALLY"

In other words, at a crucial moment for our society, these entities are going to lose 14.5 million, which are essential, not only for their survival, but also to help those who really need it. What's more, this decrease would be repeated in the following years, which could mean the disappearance of this 0.7% of personal income tax, ”warns the GPP. "The Popular Party considers that this is not the time to make changes, much less if they are made unilaterally, without dialogue and without the consensus of the affected entities," he adds.

In relation to 0.7% of Corporation Tax, the GPP recalls that the General State Budget Law dictates that the collection through the box for social purposes of 0.7% of said tax "must be articulated as a supra-territorial call and, in its entirety, it must go to finance projects of social interest presented by social action entities at the state level ”.

However, the Vice Presidency for Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda also intends to change its distribution, "which will mean cuts in funding." "The Popular Party considers that this collection should be used exclusively for projects proposed by state entities of the Third Sector of Social Action, and refuses to include other projects, such as environmental and cooperation projects that, of course, must be financed, but by other means," he explains. with said initiative.

SANCHEZ AND CHURCHES GENERATE CONFUSION AND UNCERTAINTY

"The Government of Sánchez and its vice-president Iglesias should dedicate themselves to allocate more economic resources to these entities and not to generate confusion and doubts about their viability, at a time when all efforts should focus on protecting those most in need," emphasizes the GPP, for which "social cohesion must be strengthened, ensuring its sustainability and guaranteeing the protection of those in situations of greatest vulnerability, especially in the situation of serious economic and social crisis in which we are immersed".

The GPP also highlights the “rejection” of the Third Sector Platform to the decisions adopted by the Vice-presidency of Pablo Iglesias, which is “absolute” and which is added to the one that other entities, such as the Spanish Committee, have also expressed in recent days of Representatives of People with Disabilities.




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