Ee briefing note
Tuesday 16th of June 2020
Equipo Economico (Ee) has been part of the joint working group driven by Fedea (Fundacion de Estudios de Economía Aplicada - Foundation for Applied Economics Studies), that has published the report "To Macroeconomic and Budgetary Stability after COVID-19", which includes a set of specific economic and fiscal policy recommendations, aimed at trying to overcome the crisis caused by the pandemic. The document will be part of a final analytic document that will be sent to the Reconstruction Commission of the Spanish Parliament.
Ee briefing note
Wednesday 13th of May 2020
Supporting internal demand and income in the short term in a transitory and reversible manner, financing the recovery generously but limited it in time, controlling public debt sustainability, establishing clear legislation to foster certainty and confidence among investors, and maintaining business links with our main commercial partners are some of the proposed initiatives.
Expansión
Friday 8th of May 2020
"Money, money, money”, sang the legendary band Abba in a far away year 1976, not paper but e-money. Bjorn Ulvaeus, one of its members, suffered a burglary at his son's home in 2006 and led a movement to remove paper money in Sweden. Only in this way would the black market, which allows the sale of stolen objects, disappear. Putting his own convictions into practice, cash is not accepted at the Abba Museum in Stockholm. Keep this in mind if you plan to travel to the Nordic capital.
Recovery and financial sustainability
El Confidencial
Thursday 30th of April 2020
Our reduced capacity to react to the current crisis is closely linked to the imbalance in the Spanish public accounts.
Tax returns and government reluctance.
Expansión
Wednesday 8th of April 2020
The government is not providing taxpayers with a possible delay or moratorium in the deadlines for tax return and self-assessments, as other European countries (Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Norway) have already done. In this scenario, a taxpayer who does not have liquidity to assume the corresponding tax burden could only request its postponement if the requirements are met.