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Mas-Colell: “I worry that the government minimize the revenue should receive the autonomous communities”

BARCELONA, 25 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Minister of Economy of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Andreu Mas-Colell, has revealed that, according to his calculations, this community should perceive in 2016 some 2,000 million more than this year by revenue model financing, but it has already shown its concern about the possibility that the central government “minimize” the revenue should receive the autonomous communities.

In an interview with TVE Catalunya, the Minister explained that this amount calculated , some 900 million would be increased corresponding to advance tax revenues, while the remaining approximately 1,150 million would be from the liquidation of the financial year 2014. “We must pay the Treasury which has grossed more about what It was then estimated, “said Mas-Colell.

The Minister of Economy and Knowledge has added these calculations do not quite fit in with the overall figure of 7,000 million for all communities recently targeted by Mariano Rajoy.

“It’s a figure too low if you take into account the underestimation of revenues in 2014, which is now settled,” Mas-Colell has said, worried to see what the government will do to minimize, according to him, . the resources corresponding to the autonomies

deficit target

Mas-Colell has again rejected an asymmetric distribution of the deficit between communities: “The problem is the division of resources between the and the overall state of autonomies, “he argued.

Given the possibility that the next Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy (CPFF) this asymmetry arises, Mas-Colell and oppose progress that Catalonia radically, and he has criticized that first an overall deficit for all is set and then say that they can be different between them.

IMPACT OF 27S

On a possible impact of the sovereignty process and 27S in the Catalan economy, Andreu Mas-Colell said he has not seen any change in trend.

pointed out that foreign investment is coming, Catalonia continues to grow at the same pace even more pace than Spain, and unemployment is declining, while pointed out that from the political level, international experts are “friendly” to the process.

The minister has defended a growth model for Catalonia based on high productivity ., jobs with high productivity and education, among other factors