Last 17th November, a meeting of the Joint Commission of the Economic Agreement (CMCE) was held, in which different tax and financial issues were agreed.
Among the first ones, it has been agreed the agreement of two new tax figures -Special Tax on Non-Reusable Plastic Containers and the Tax on the Deposit of Waste in Landfills, Incineration and Co-incineration of Waste- as well as the adaptation of the Economic Agreement to the changes introduced in the Tax on Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases.
With regard to financial matters, the new Quota methodology for the five-year period 2022-2026 has been approved, which sets the provisional quota for the base year at €1,472M, as well as the definitive amounts of the Liquid Quota 2021, the Financial Compensations (definitive 2021 and provisional 2022) and the Valuation of Active Employment Policies (definitive 2021 and provisional 2022). In addition, approval has been given for the instrumentation of the financing of the management of the Minimum Vital Income and the Basque Country’s participation in the allocations of the System for Autonomy and Care for Dependency and in the extraordinary allocations to finance functions in health matters and for the scholarship supplement.
Finally, the Joint Committee of the Economic Agreement has ratified the agreement signed by the General Administration of the State and the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country on 28th September 2022 regarding budgetary stability for the year 2023.
