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The Civil Guard reports to the judge that
Puigdemont diverted this amount of public money to develop the Tax Code, the
Tax Board, the Fiscal Council, the deployment of the Treasury and to increase
the workforce of these institutions.
This previously unknown information has been found
in a pen drive of the former Secretary of the Treasury Josep Lluís Salvadó and
has just been sent to the court.
It also reflects the total investment expected in
case of independence: 500 million to create a Catalan Treasury with 7,000 employees.
The Civil Guard quantifies in at least 17 million public euros the
figure deviated "effectively" by the Generalitat chaired by Carles Puigdemont to launch the Catalan Tax Agency. The Judicial Police Unit has prepared a
new report, to which EL MUNDO has had access, in which it analyzes the
documentation intervened on a pen drive that was confiscated from former
Finance Secretary Josep Lluís Salvadó.
Specifically, "a working document prepared by
the Department of Vice Presidency, Economy and Finance" on the
"coordination, supervision and monitoring of activities and measures aimed
at the creation of the Catalan state and that affect, basically, the tax
area" has been found. It reflects the funds that "effectively"
have already been arranged to obtain "full fiscal sovereignty"
through the development of a Tax Code, a Tax Board and a Fiscal Council,
increase the workforce and enhance territorial deployment.
The intervened report included a series of measures
that "are integrated into the autonomic road" but constitute "an
intermediate stage to implement many others with the ultimate goal of creating
the Catalan state and ensure its economic viability". Thus, the new documentation
confiscated from Salvadó states that "the deployment of the Tax Administration
would require 499.869.737 euros and increase the workforce to around 7,000
people without quantifying the amount necessary for the deployment of customs
or the agency of real estate property".
700 more staff
Thus, the Civil Guard stresses, "they intended
to prepare an international agreement to avoid double taxation with Spain using
the OECD model and starting from the hypothesis of guaranteeing the advantages
of applying community directives". "All this taking into account that
they proposed to create the Office of International Taxation even knowing that,
at present, they do not have competences in this matter".
"It can be affirmed", continues the
Judicial Police, "that the Department of the Vice Presidency, Economy and
Treasury has been working on the disconnection". "Specifically and
initially they are doing it until exhausting what they call autonomic way for
what they have valued assets in Catalonia with the purpose of incorporating
them into the heritage of the Generalitat, they have approved the normative
development whose main frame was established by Law 17/2017 of August 1 of the
Tax Code of Catalonia and have designed the organizational structure of the
future tax administration".
"Implementing for this purpose", adds the
Civil Guard, "the Tax Board, the Fiscal Council, the Institute of Fiscal
Studies, the Tax Agency, its territorial deployment, the implementation of the
e-SPRIU system and the improvement of the GAUDÍ system". Thus,
"without having been a normative contribution to regulate them, there is
evidence that they were working on the development of the Customs Agency, the
International Taxation Office and the Real Estate Agency".
"Based on the above and the figures"
seized from Salvadó, "it can be affirmed that part of the resources that
they had planned to spend, have been effectively arranged". For it is
clear that "the activation of the Tax Board, the Fiscal Council, the
Fiscal Research Institute and a good part of the territorial deployment of the
Tax Agency has been carried out and the workforce has increased to 700
people".
Full fiscal sovereignty
"Therefore, and without being convincingly
ratified, it can be thought that part of the resources foreseen for the
development of the Tax Code, which had been set at 200,000 euros, have been
invested; for the deployment of the Tax Board, the Fiscal Council and the
Institute of Fiscal Investigation which had a joint cost of 7,800,000 euros;
for the territorial deployment of the tax administration budgeted at 4,500,000
euros; and for the implementation of the e-SPRIU system, estimated at 4,923,848
euros.
"In summary," the researchers conclude,
"it is inferred that around 17 million euros have been invested in the
deployment of the tax administration as an intermediate stage to achieve full
fiscal sovereignty of the future Catalan state".
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