The ineffable Ursula von der Leyenhow well represents the essences of this European Union Bureaucratized, confiscatory and ultimately, failed (Hi, Brexit) has clearly pointed out who to expoliate even more: to the companies that work. Brussels has put on the table a proposal of a new tax that It will affect all companies that invoice more than 100 million euros per year, with fixed quotas ranging from 100,000 to 500,000 euros a year. It is not for benefits: because it exists.
The occurrence is not less. The rate would apply by enterprisenot by consolidated group. That is, if a holding has ten relevant subsidiaries, the bite multiplies by ten. To this is added 15% of the special taxes on the tobacco that Brussels wants to redirect to its own boxa new one bowl on Electronic wasteanother for the carbon in border, and more income from the emission trade system. Further Fiscal Engineering in the form of citrus squeezer.
The excuse is to prevent states from increasing their own contributions. That is to say: In order not to raise the German or French citizen tax, it is uploaded to the companies that create employment, They pay salaries and compete on a global scale. And that, of course, they will transfer as quickly as possible the surcharge.
By the way, Spain gets a lot of time, since, unfortunately, our scheme is of Cetre SMEs. We do not have so many companies that invoice more than 100 million: from some 3 million companiesjust 3.000 They reach that figure. 0.1%.
One more twist in that European model that penalizes success, as if earning money were suspicious by definition. It is no exception. It is the trend. «Companies, who pay, that for something earn money,» is the extended phrase, ignoring that every time an entrepreneur launches and assumes risks, he does, precisely, to win. If so, nobody would undertake.
In recent years, we have attended a true inflation of taxes without structural logic. He bank tax In Spain, temporarily … but with vocation eternal. The tax at Energywho penalizes just whom They hold the networks In critical moments. The tax of solidarity at Great fortunesborn with populist name and confiscatory base. The attempt to apply a differentiated digital VAT, which remained in Limbo but made clear the goal: to continue squeezing.
Each week A new tribute arrives, a new occurrence, a new way of putting the hand in the business pocket. An indisimulated e illegitimate Exercise of our bureaucrats, unable to manage the economies of countries without eroding freedoms and shearing them.
Always under him costume of equity, climate emergency or fiscal solidarity. He common goodThe Eternal argument of the Tyransunder which the voracity Collection, the hyper regulationhe control total and, of course, the poverty and the shortage As inevitable consequences.
While Brussels entertaining his fiscal castle, France has just announced a package Structural cuts. Because? Because he can’t more. Because he has collided with the wall of his own debt. Because for a lot of redistributive ideology that is applied, the numbers sing.
The administration – national or community – cannot invent taxes because it is convenient. You have no right to confiscate private property to sustain inefficient structures or projects without return. Taxes are a medium, never an end. Its legitimacy is born from the service, not from the political need.
When the State stops administering and begins to collect by impulse, what there is is not political: it is arbitrariness. It is abuse. It is decay.
You just have to look at any first flat of any newspaper: they want to vomit: Catalan fiscal quota to stay in power, the inspectors on a war foot and more looting the rest of Spain. Montorothat minister who de facto prohibited the use of cash, accused. Pacheco Torre. TVE used without the slightest decorum. Super Santos Cerdán In jail and Ábaloscalled to declare in Peru. The trains continue to stand, with cessations in ADIF.
And Institutional collapsefruit of the legal insecurity and the normalized arbitrariness. Because corruption is rudely visible, sectarianly denied and mediately covert.
But people are not completely dumb, at least, the one that does not depend on the State. The average businessmanthat invoices more than 100 million but also pays 1,000 payrolls every month, Start asking if it is worth continuing to play with these rules. Europe should take note.
The real threat is not a company that wins too much, it is an administration that spends without brake and charges without permission. An administration «expense addic», as the French prime minister said, François Bayrouwhich does not hesitate to shear its citizens.
Anyway … excellent measures for that Europe indicated by Mario Draghi as a continent unable to face the productivity challengesgrowth and capital generation.