Yolanda DiazMinister of Labour and leader of the Sumar Coalitionwants to create or increase a dozen taxes and increase public subsidies. A tax on tobaccohas legacies of more than one million euros, increase the VAT to private health and education, to large fortunes, to a new section of the personal income tax for high incomes… These are the proposals of Yolanda Díazz to negotiate with the PSOE in the face of the General budgets of 2025which remain pending due to the lack of sufficient support from the government in Congress.
Raise taxes while increasing public subsidies and improving the situation of film and cultural artists, for whom he calls for a single financing. Here are their proposals:
More taxes
Yolanda Diaz suggests that the tax on banks and energy companies, which was launched temporarily, becomes permanent. This tax is the subject of appeals from companies and the sectors concerned assume that it will be declared unconstitutional.
In addition, the Minister of Labour wants to reduce the ceiling for those who are obliged to pay tax from three to one million euros. wealth taxanother tax that was put in place temporarily due to the pandemic and is now permanent.
Yolanda Diaz proposes to create a a new tax which calls for solidarity on large inheritances, which would affect people who inherit more than one million euros outside their usual residence. It also proposes a new section of personal income tax for incomes above 150,000 euros per year.
In addition, he wants to increase VAT on private health care – insurance – and on private education, which is segregated by gender, “as in Opus Dei schools,” he stressed. The Catholic Church should also pay the IBI if Yolanda Díaz’s thesis triumphs.
Regarding housing, Yolanda Díaz wants to impose an increase in VAT on tourist rentals up to 21% and prohibit the purchase of houses in stressed areas by people who will not dedicate them to their habitual residence. This is their formula to lower prices.
Finally, Yolanda Díaz proposed increasing tobacco taxes to reduce the health costs generated by smokers for the sick.
More subsidies
In exchange, Yolanda Díaz wants to increase public subsidies, state aid to citizens. First, she proposes a universal family allowance of 200 euros. In addition, she wants to extend maternity leave from 16 to 20 weeks.
The battery of new public subsidies includes aid for glasses, contact lenses, VAT reduction on diapers, gluten-free products, hairdressing, veterinary medicine, electricity and public transport.
Finally, Díaz also wants the rental contract to always be of indefinite duration and to provide cultural workers with a single tax system.
