The spokesperson for the Popular Parliamentary Group in the regional Chamber and president of the Canary Islands People's Party, Australia Navarro, criticized the lack of foresight of the Canary Tax Agency by not taking into account the exceptional conditions, derived from the health crisis, to adopt measures that allowed to postpone the maturities of the installment payments already granted, during the state of alarm decreed by the Government of Spain to combat the pandemic.
Australia Navarro, who criticized the lack of sensitivity of the regional government to thousands of self-employed and SMEs in the Canary Islands, described the measure as "untimely and poorly thought-out", as it did not take into account the damage that it can cause in a time of low liquidity when, in At best, our companies are starting a return to economic activity.
"It is surprising, he said, that the Canary Islands Treasury has not taken into account the exceptional circumstances that arose as a consequence of the declaration of the state of alarm for the management of the crisis caused by COVID-19 and its successive extensions that have affected the ability of the debtors of the Treasury of the autonomous community to meet their payment obligations ”.
A lack of foresight that Navarro blamed on the absence of leadership and cohesion within the Executive. "A government distracted by the power struggles between the different groups that support it, hit by continuous resignations and resignations, it is difficult to find time to think about the problems that many families and entrepreneurs from the Canary Islands face."
In this sense, it considered that the Government of the Canary Islands should have foreseen that the measures adopted for the containment of the coronavirus, especially the confinement and the compulsory closure of almost all businesses and economic activities, have caused serious liquidity problems for self-employed and small and medium-sized companies that, in turn, have affected more than 250,000 Canarian workers, included in employment regulation files, or who have directly joined the unemployment lists.
"This is a problem of liquidity, not solvency, for which the Canary Islands Government should have offered a quick and effective response, but which, unfortunately, it has not provided," concluded the president of the popular Canaries.
Finally, the PP requests that those self-employed who have not been able to meet some of the past installments for liquidity reasons are not charged either interest or surcharges and are provided with the payment of these debts.
