Myths and fallacies about taxes and our tax system - There was no more employment but less

That the money that the rich save for not paying taxes does not benefit ordinary people was shown by a journal as little suspicious of leftism as The Wall Street Journal. 

The US financial newspaper analyzed the period of the presidency of Bush son after lowering the tax to rich and very rich. The newspaper's conclusion was that that stage, when the rich paid less taxes, was the one with the lowest job creation in recent US history.

It is also false that if taxes were increased on the wealthy in Spain, they would go to another country. Difficult, because most of the surrounding countries have taxes higher than those of Spain.

In the same way it is false that the Spaniards pay too many taxes. 

So false is that the European Union has denounced that the tax reductions in Spain perpetrated since 1995 were not justified in any way and, moreover, are the cause of the large Spanish public deficit.

In reality, Spain has a lower tax burden than the average of the 19 eurozone states of which it is a part. 

Fiscal pressure is what is really collected in taxes, fees and other taxes compared to GDP. 

In Spain, the tax burden is 30% of GDP while the European average is almost 39% . Much difference. 

Precisely because of the lower tax collection, the Spanish public debt does not stop increasing and today it is something more than a trillion euros, which is equivalent to 100% of the GDP, the wealth created in a year.

In Spain the tax burden is 30% of GDP while the European average is almost 39%

There is no doubt that the Kingdom of Spain is a leader in tax fraud. 

The volume of its fraudulent submerged economy causes the State to stop paying 90,000 million euros a year in taxes, fees and social contributions, according to GESTHA.

To understand the state of Spanish and global taxation, we must remember the role of the so-called tax havens :  

territories where the banking secrecy and the anonymity of the owners of deposits and those who speculate financially are total and where very few taxes are paid or not paid. 

Secrecy, anonymity and non-payment of taxes (or ridiculous) turn tax havens into financial lairs that store a huge and obscene hidden wealth. 

And footstep for not paying the taxes that big companies, multinationals and big fortunes should. 

In addition to mafias, organized groups of criminals and terrorists who also hide their money in tax havens.

Being rich comes cheap in Spain

A Spanish fact suggestive of Spanish taxation is that 34 of the 35 large companies and Spanish multinational corporations, which are grouped in the Ibex 35 stock index, have almost nine hundred branches or subsidiaries in tax havens. 

Why not if it is to evade taxes? 

In addition, in Spain, as in almost the entire world, capital pays little or nothing in proportion to its great benefits at the same time as multinationals such as Amazon, Google,    Microsoft ,  Nike , Apple, eBay, McDonalds,  Inditex , Facebook ... and up to three hundred more evade systematically, when they do not evade smoothly and simply, the payment of hundreds of billions of taxes.

Another fiscal fallacy to dismantle is that the tax fraud of the self-employed is enormous. It is not true. The non-payment of taxes of self-employed, small and medium enterprises (evidently also illegal) barely adds up to 8% of the total tax fraud in Spain. Those who evade large amounts of taxes are the rich, the great fortunes and large companies that evade three quarters of the country's tax fraud.

The final result is a considerable and worrying fiscal insufficiency that causes that the general budgets are short, besides moving the State to borrow. 

This insufficiency is a consequence of the current unjust and regressive Spanish taxation that it spends on the basis of what is collected and not collected enough. 

But it should be exactly the other way round: prepare budgets and collect to meet the rights and needs of citizens, with special attention to the most disadvantaged. 

That means that the General State Budgets (PGE) must be sufficient, as well as progressive and fair.