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Spanish government insists that the impact is minimal: only some 3,700 people will pay the 3.5 per cent rate set by the new solidarity tax for large fortunes with assets of more than €10 million, thus affecting 0.2 per cent of taxpayers.

The PP has now upped the ante and on February 1, challenged the law in the Constitutional Tribunal on no less than six legal grounds, the most relevant being the illegality of stripping the wealth tax jurisdictionstatutorily held by the autonomous regions ­ in favour of the Socialist central government or the dubiously legal practice of implementing the levy in December 2022 albeit with retroactive application to January 1, 2022.

THE President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso made a visit to Israel on Monday February 13, where she met with top ranking officials including the country’s President.

Ayuso broke away from the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau’s decision to break ties with the middle eastern nation over its occupation of Israel.

Ayuso said that Colau’s decision does not represent either Catalonia or Spain, describing Madrid as “welcoming”.

Speaking with the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, Ayuso said “We are not in a time where we should be breaking relations with anyone, particularly with a democratic nation like Israel.”