The teachers of Barcelona have blocked access to the Sagrada Familia during a new day of teacher strikes in Catalonia, something that has forced the site to close for two hours to ensure the safety of visitors and teachers, sources from the basilica told La Vanguardia. The teachers had “restricted” access to visitors, so the temple could not open at 9 in the morning at its usual time.
The demand from ERC regarding the management of the IRPF in Catalonia, which thwarted the previous attempt to approve the budgets of the Salvador Illa Government, has been put on hold for the moment, but, in the meantime, the republicans have tried to negotiate up to the limits of what is possible within the framework of the budget agreement to be announced this week to prepare the ground. Thus, the Catalan Tax Agency (ATC) will receive a clear boost with a specific program contract that will allow it to equip itself within a period of three years (2026-2029) with the human and technical resources necessary to assume all tax functions related to the management of the aforementioned tax for taxpayers in Catalonia.
“You left me with the mother-in-law as a neighbor with the press at the door and the debt to the Treasury,” Shakira sang to Gerard Piqué after their separation. But none of that is real anymore, because the singer left Barcelona and moved away from the mother-in-law. And now the National Court has issued a ruling that exempts her from her famous tax debt and orders the Treasury to return 55 million euros to her. These are the key points of the long dispute between the Tax Agency and the Colombian artist:
The singer Shakira has achieved an important legal victory against the Spanish Tax Agency after more than eight years of legal battle. The National Court has ruled in favor of the artist and has ordered the refund of 60 million euros, in addition to the generated interest and the costs of the procedure. This closes one of the most high-profile tax cases of recent years.
Shakira has won her latest battle against the Tax Agency after eight years of litigation. The National Court has ruled in her favor in the case opened regarding the 2011 fiscal year and orders the Tax Agency to return 60 million euros to her. The Tax Agency considered that the Colombian artist had spent the legally required time in Spain —183 days—, which obligated her to pay taxes on her earnings in the country.
I’m “going as a lady with chemo.” This was the response that Teresa Rodríguez, founder of Adelante Andalucía, gave yesterday on her social media to an internet user who was mocking her for wearing a kufiya on her head. “What are you dressed up as?” he snapped. The response left no one indifferent.
Once the electoral scrutiny of May 17 confirmed on the night of this Sunday its poor polling forecasts in Andalusia, the PSOE leadership hurried to put forward a flood of positive elements for their interests to try to overcome the fact that María Jesús Montero, with only 28 seats, broke through the historical low of the socialists in what was once their impregnable stronghold.
Juanma Moreno harbors few doubts and seems to bet on governing “alone” despite having lost the absolute majority in the Andalusian regional elections. The president of the Junta de Andalucía and PP candidate for re-election lost five seats and was two short of the absolute majority, a result he considers “sufficiently decisive” to avoid having to incorporate Vox into the government.
María Jesús Montero, until a few weeks ago vice president of the Government, will resign her seat as a deputy in the Congress and will take her seat in the Andalusian parliament when it is constituted.
In these Andalusian elections held yesterday, everyone defied their expectations. Juanma Moreno’s was to maintain the absolute majority and repeat the mathematical miracle of 2022; Montero’s was to exceed the thirty deputies from four years ago. Neither of the two has been fulfilled.