Twenty-One Per Cent, Postponed
Spain's 21 per cent VAT on tourist lets was supposed to be approved yesterday. It wasn't.
The housing decree was scheduled for Tuesday's cabinet meeting, the last before the summer break. It got pulled.
➡️ The Housing Ministry says September
➡️ Podemos won't back the text because of the Ley del Suelo reform inside it
➡️ Junts and the PNV have separate objections, some of them incompatible with each other
➡️ Asked directly if he could guarantee September, Pedro Sánchez didn't guarantee it. He said the government is in a parliamentary minority and has to build alliances first
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