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Rajoy said that neither clean nor erase any offense the fiscal regularization

Session of control in Parliament


Rajoy in the Spanish Parliament (Source: Pool Moncloa)
(Source: Pool Moncloa)
USPA NEWS - The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, said Wednesday at the session of control to Executive in Parliament that the measures taken by the Government and the "brilliant work" carried out by the Tax Agency have allowed 124,000 million euros that they were abroad now part of the tax bases of Spain.
The president stressed that the actions of the Tax Agency and the fight against fraud have allowed from 2012 to 2014 have been raised 37.674 million euros. In addition, the first quarter of 2015 has been the best in the history of Spain in the fight against fraud, as they have surfaced 2.889 million euros. Mariano Rajoy recalled the steps along the legislature have been taken in this matter, as the Law on preventing and combating tax fraud; tax reform that took effect in 2015; the General Tax Law which will soon be discussed in Parliament; the new agreement to be adopted with Andorra and the automatic exchange of tax information, among others.
The Spanish prime minister recalled that fiscal adjustments have been made in other countries in the EU and in Spain in 1984 and 1991, but noted that, unlike the latter, as adopted in 2012, "the taxpayer pays, their names are known to the State Tax Agency, no clean or erase any crime, has the backing of the OECD, has caused the largest increase in tax bases outcrop of history, and therefore have made the tax system more fair."
Job creation, the main objective
"The main inequality in the labor market is the one between those who can work and who can not work. Therefore the main objective of this legislature has been the fight against unemployment", Rajoy said. With these words, the prime minister responded to the leader of the Spanish Socialist Woker Party (PSOE in its Spanish acronym), Pedro Sánchez, who has asked about the inequality in the labor market.
Rajoy recalled that when he came to power at the end of 2011, unemployment increased 9.6% per year, while today is declining 7.2% a year. He stressed that, according to data from the latest Labour Force Survey, in Spain they are creating full-time permanent employment. He added that last year, for the first time since 2006, increased employment and decreased unemployment and, although it is still absolutely insufficient data to March this year compared to March 2014 indicate that 536,000 Spaniards have I could join Social Security. Therefore, begin to see results that "encourages us to continue working in the same direction," said the president.
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