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The sector cárnico Catalan takes a break in spite of the encarecimiento of the taxles of veterinary inspection

15/02/2012

15 February 2012

In spite of not attaining the supresión total of the point of the proposal of the Law of Fiscal and Financial Measures that foresaw an abusive increase of the taxles of veterinary inspection, the sector is quite satisfied by the substantial modification of the initial approach, after a lot of management of the representatives of the patronal cárnica Catalan.

After numerous meetings between the Catalan Federation of Industries of the Meat (FECIC) and diverse parliamentary groups and councils of the Government of Catalonia, has achieved a substantial modification with regard to the initial proposal of the autonomic government. A proposal whose end was to put up the price of the taxles of veterinary inspection in more than 260% on the values that at present already pay the Catalan slaughterhouses.

The Diari Official of the Parlament of Catalonia (DOPC) collected the week happened the different amendments that the Parliamentary Groups have incorporated to this proposal of law, between which stand out two promoted by the Popular group, that modify three principles on which FECIC has done upsetting. These are:

-The faculty of the slaughterhouse in repercutir the tax of waste to the grazier, remaining recognised in this law the wide existent jurisprudence like consequence of the judicial sentences achieved in his moment.

-The entrance in force of the new law for the slaughterhouses will not be with retroactive effects from 1 January of the year 2012, as it pretended the Catalan executive, but it will apply in the back natural quarter to his publication in the Diari Official of the Government of Catalonia (DOGC).

-With regard to the deductions of the tax, the proposal was to reduce them in 41 points of deduction. Like this it would happen of the 65 current to 24% proposed. Finally, will be able to recover big part of this deduction, and establishes a maximum of 56%, with what the differential of deductions becomes of nine points.

The modification attained supposes a final situation substantially better to the posed in a principle, but even so from the FECIC consider that they can not accept rises tributarias in the productive sectors in the order of 62% like which have posed . Sources of the organisation have wanted to leave clear that the impact tributario can not repercutir in the consumption, generating a cost more for the companies, to add to the ones of environingingmental character, energetic, logistical, tributario, etc.

Fits to remember that the companies cárnicas Catalan will have to assume now an annual outlay of some three million euros, that will add to the six that already paid. Of the discount attained, this increase of the tax of veterinary inspection subtracts competitiveness to the meat sector Catalan, a sector netamente exporter, with regard to other Autonomous Communities that keep some deductions in the quota of 80% or that simply do not pay it.