Tibia welcomed among its allies to the new Housing Law of the PSOE | Spain

The new legislative proposal of the PSOE on Housing He has had a lukewarmness among his main allies, especially the ones more to the left. Two of the measures in principle a broad support: VAT climb to tourist floors and the encumbrances to empty housing, which support from the PNV to add, ERC or EH Bildu. On the other hand, the most to the left forces, starting with the government’s minority partner, reject what they understand as « fiscal gifts » to the owners of homes to push them to take them out to the rental market, understanding that « rewards the rentiers. »

The Socialist Parliamentary Group recorded this Thursday in Congress a proposal of law that includes a battery of fiscal measures, including 21% of the VAT of tourist floors or penalties of empty housing or foreigners who buy houses. The initiative also contemplates tax bonuses through IRPF for owners who reduce rental prices without the need for the property to be in a tensioning area (those that allow the limitation of the rental price). The first reactions of the allies predict a hard negotiating process to carry out the initiative.

As usual in recent weeks, the most critical reaction has been that of Podemos. Already on Thursday afternoon, the party leader, Ione Belarra, hastened to affirm In the social network X: « The law of the PSOE, in the absence of analyzing it in more detail, seems to me a recklessness. Fiscal gifts to the rentists in full » more than justified – wave of social indignation against the rentiers is a risky play. But, of course, everyone wants to end up in the real estate employer. « 

In another tone, Sumar has also expressed your doubts about some of the measures included in the package and warns that the PSOE will have to negotiate with them in Congress. Parliamentary sources of the formation advance their favorable criteria for the limitation of tourist floors with the VAT rise for companies such as Airbnb, to fiscal charges on empty housing or also hardens the taxation of the quoted societies of real estate investment (socimis) – which will go from taxing 15% to 25% -, proposals, who affirm, were their own. This last measure is also contemplated in a proposal of its own law that ERC registered this week. Regarding the VAT to the tourist rental, the president of the PNV, Aitor Esteban, in statements from this Friday to RNE, and parliamentary sources of EH Bildu, have also expressed in favor.

But add also regretted that the « consecrates prizes to the rentists », forgiving them taxes « that the tenants will have to pay », as the deputy of Compromís and second vice president of the Housing Commission and Urban Agenda of the Congress, Alberto Ibáñez, “the taxation must be fair and therefore it cannot be that the PSOE tries that the people who charge a minimum salary pay for a minimum salary pay and Instead, they want to forgive taxes again, ”said Ibáñez. « We must not forgive taxes to the rentiers, but to swell with taxes to those people who rent houses above what is fair, » he said.

In the same line, parliamentary sources of EH Bildu were demonstrated: « It is rewarded with public money whom he has been applying abusive rentals. » The Abertzales They believe that the measure « would not supply the effect that is intended. » The legislative proposal submitted by ERC does not go in this line and even proposes to create a new tax « to the accumulation of real estate for residential use » applicable from the third home in property.

The treatment to housing owners provokes one of the most obvious contradictions within the parliamentary base that supports the government. The issue divides its wing further to the right – juncts and PNV – and the groups more to the left. Aitor Esteban has returned to claim this Friday « touch -ups » in the Housing Law already approved this legislature to give more « legal certainty » to the owners. According to the president of the PNV, that rule has retracted the rental offer because the owners of floors believe that guarantees have been granted to tenants who « will prevent them from recovering it in a reasonable time even though there is an non -payment. »

On the general housing policy, also within the government they live different positions. Adding has made her one of her main flags of the legislature and has been pressing the PSOE for months to move. Both say they agree on the need to intervene in the market – the president reiterated it last Tuesday in Congress before a question of Junts – but adding demands that it be done more overwhelmingly.

The PSOE has decided to register a proposal on its own after having caused a strong discomfort among its leftist allies for the attitude held at the Congress table last Tuesday. The Socialists tried once again to freeze, through the helpful method of expanding the amendment term, a proposition of the law to regulate seasonal rentals. This initiative was presented for adding, ERC, EH Bildu, Podemos and BNG, from a text from the tenant union, and its process has already obtained the approval of the plenary. After months of blocking, it was the votes of PP and add, against the criteria of the socialists, which allowed to open the process for the elaboration of the text. The discomfort is enormous in ERC, which considers that these types of attitudes question the « credibility » of the government’s first party to face the « greater social emergency of our times. »