Six Nissan subcontractors reactivate an indefinite strike starting next Monday.

Six workers subcontracts of Nissan have decided unanimously to go to the indefinite strike from Monday. The company committees of Segula, Comsa, Carretillas Mayor, Aubay, Servi Securitas and Bartic Clan have reactivated the call for work stoppages that were suspended on April 19, in order to reach an agreement with their companies and the automotive matrix and shield your compensation once the Nissan factories close on December 31stof this year.

The main demand is to be part of the reindustrialization table with the aim of saving the maximum number of workplaces. As reported in a statement, it has been a “delaying strategy with the intention of breaking the unity of action” of these companies.

The subcontractors, advised by the Col·lectiu Ronda , accuse Nissan of threatening some of these companies not to renew their service provision contracts if the protests were finally carried out. Nissan uses the services of these companies through a formula of contractual renewal month by month. In a statement, the templates have said that they feel “cheated and manipulated” and have warned that as of Monday “any negotiation will be made with the production of Nissan stopped.”

The personnel of these firms carry out functions such as the maintenance of the process control computer services, the prevention and extinction of fires, the supply of parts to the assembly lines or the start-up and maintenance of the main machinery, among others.

The lawyer for the Col·lectiu Ronda Josep Pérez has regretted “that the predisposition of the staff to find a negotiated solution to the conflict has been ignored” and has renewed the offer to dialogue, despite the fact that he considers it “logical and inevitable” that the staff go back on strike.

A strike, as he has warned, has the prospect of paralyzing the plant, since these subcontractors perform essential functions for the activity.

The Generalitat and the Bellvitge Hospital collaborate in the prevention of gambling addiction. They have signed a collaboration agreement to promote research in the field of prevention of addictions with games of chance.

The Catalan administration will provide the HUB with the anonymized data from the Registry of people who are prohibited from accessing bingo halls and casinos.

The Department of Vice-Presidency and Economy and Hisenda and the Hospital Universitari de Bellvtige (HUB) of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelonès) signed last Thursday, April 29, a collaboration agreement to promote research in the field of prevention of addictions and healthy behaviors related to gambling .

Thanks to the agreement, the General Directorate of Tributs i Joc will provide the Pathological Gambling Unit of the HUB’s Psychiatry Service with the anonymized data from the Registry of people who are prohibited from accessing gambling halls, bingo halls and casinos to promote research related to the problems of gambling in Catalonia.

The purpose of this collaboration is to prepare studies or carry out other research actions that aim to assess the changes that are taking place in the offer and the modes of play and the effects that these may have on the behavior of the players, especially among the youngest and in other vulnerable groups.

Identify risk factors
Facilitating this research with the data from the aforementioned registry “is an innovative and pioneering fact, which shows, once again, that games of chance and its harmful effects on people is a priority issue to be addressed by the Government”, has highlighted the Secretary General of the Department of the Vice-presidency and Hisenda, Albert Castellanos .

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For her part, the head of the Southern Metropolitan Territorial Management of the Catalan Health Institute (ICS), Montserrat Figuerola , stressed that “this is an important initiative that will allow the identification of risk factors associated with problematic gambling behaviors, as well as to elaborate prevention programs aimed at the general population, but especially people with profiles of greater vulnerability “.

The Government plans to eliminate “gradually” the reduction by joint taxation in personal income tax, considering that it “creates a disincentive to the participation of the second income earner”, who are usually women.

The measure, which aims to promote the incorporation of women into work, is included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan sent to Brussels for economic reconstruction after the Covid crisis, El País announced yesterday, and will be adopted through the establishment of a transitional regime.

It benefits two million households and its annual cost amounts, according to the latest General State Budgets, to 1,000 million euros . “It includes the gradual disappearance of the reduction by joint taxation through the establishment of a transitory regime, because it generates a disincentive to the labor participation of the second income earner (mainly women),” the document indicates.

According to the Plan, “a modern tax system should not serve exclusively to provide income that finances public spending, but should contribute directly to enhancing the impact of public policies, serving as a catalyst to achieve transformations in areas such as gender equality , the attention to the disability, the conservation of the environment or the protection of the health “.

“There is quite a consensus that this measure discourages the entry of women into the labor market, ” they indicate from the Treasury .

The reduction by joint taxation of personal income tax depends on the type of family unit and especially benefits middle and high incomes . In the case of those made up of both spouses and, if any, minor children, as well as disabled elderly persons subject to parental authority, the tax base will be reduced by 3,400 euros per year. In single-parent family units, made up of the father or mother and disabled minor or elderly children, at € 2,150 / year.

Last year the Tax Authority (Airef) prepared a report on the tax benefits of the Spanish tax system in which, precisely, it reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of this reduction in personal income tax.

He calculated that this initiative would entail an annual loss of revenue of 2,392 million, and that it would affect up to 4.2 million people, 2.1 million households, 18% of taxpayers and 17% of families. Of course, according to this body, the tax benefit would then be distributed evenly and would not alter inequality.

Reactions
Given the information about this government plan to eliminate joint personal income tax, the criticisms were swift from the entire opposition. On the one hand, the PP spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra , said that this is how “Sánchez suffocates the middle classes and families again.”

On the other hand, the leader of Más País, Iñigo Errejón , described this measure as “an error at the worst moment” because “if it is necessary to collect it, it cannot be by carrying one more weight on the shoulders of those who have less.”

And the president of Cs, Inés Arrimadas , also criticized that Sánchez celebrated Mother’s Day “by taxing four million families.”

The Government is not considering the abolition of the tax reduction for joint taxation in the income statement, nor does this measure appear in the component dedicated to the tax reforms of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan that has been sent to Brussels, they have confirmed sources of the Ministry of Finance.

As they have explained, what appears in Annex IV of the Recovery Plan is that, according to the study carried out by the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) in July 2020, it was concluded that this reduction, in its current configuration, it generated a “disincentive to the labor participation of the second income earners (mainly women with low incomes), which accentuates the problems of the gender gap in the Spanish economy”.

They have added that, likewise, AIReF proposed “to accelerate its gradual disappearance by establishing a transitional regime.”

Based on the foregoing, they have ensured that what the Executive will do is evaluate the institution’s recommendations and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of the current tax incentives, as expressly indicated in the section dedicated to tax reforms of the Recovery Plan. .

To do this, they have indicated that a group of experts has also been created that will issue its report in February 2022 and that it will be at that time when it will consider what fiscal measures are most appropriate to adapt the tax system to the 21st century and boost growth. and job creation.

Therefore, they have emphasized that the only thing the Government is going to study, with the technical advice of experts, is how to prevent this tax reduction from accentuating the existing gender gap in the labor market. All this, without, in any case, this possible tax reform going to mean an increase in the tax burden on families.

Two million households
This measure benefits two million households and its cost amounts, according to the latest General State Budgets (PGE), to about 1,000 million euros a year.

Last year the Tax Authority (Airef) prepared a report on the tax benefits of the Spanish tax system in which it precisely reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of this reduction in personal income tax.

And it estimates that the cost to the public coffers of this initiative amounts to 2,293 million, and the beneficiaries are 4.2 million people, 2.1 million households , 18% of taxpayers and 17% of families. The agency maintains that the tax benefit is distributed evenly and does not alter inequality.

Up to 3,400 euros of deduction
Currently, the reduction by joint taxation of personal income tax depends on the type of family unit in question.

In the case of joint returns of family units made up of both spouses not legally separated and, if any, minor children living together, as well as legally disabled adults subject to extended or rehabilitated parental authority, the tax base will be reduced by 3,400 euros per year.

In joint declarations of single-parent family units , that is, those formed, in cases of legal separation or when there is no marriage bond, by the father or the mother and all the minor or adult children legally incapacitated subject to extended parental authority or rehabilitated living with one or the other, the tax base will be reduced by 2,150 euros per year.

In this case, this reduction will not be applied when the taxpayer lives with the father or mother of any of the children who are part of their family unit. And the reduction that comes from those mentioned will be applied, first, to the general tax base, without it being negative as a consequence of such reduction. The remainder, if any, will reduce the tax base of the savings, which may not be negative either.