Hacienda claiming 80.5 million euros to television … – Hoycinema

The Treasury claims 80.5 million euros to the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation in VAT levied on public television and radio stations in the state , as reported by the CCMA itself. In a statement released Sunday, the CCMA states that the Ministry of Finance based its request on a “change of position” of the tax administration in the deduction of the VAT affect television and public radio non-state.

So far, VAT CCMA 100% of their income was apparent, including the contributions of the regional government and advertising revenues are included, but after the change of position of Finance , public television can only deduct the VAT revenue collected in respect of publicity and no public input.

The CCMA denounces this initiative Ministry and argues that TV3 and Catalunya Radio apply exactly the same criteria regulated by the tax legislation since the beginning of the implementation of the tax. The action of Finance, according to the CCMA, involves “serious effects on the current budget year and project threatens the viability of public radio and television of Catalonia .”

The Agency State Tax Administration (AEAT), Ministry of Finance has informed the Corporation’s inspection report on the conflict of VAT, which will demand payment of amounts by deduction of VAT has been made during the 2012 and 2013 . At the time of the notification, the CCMA has notified the AEAT dispute this claim and has expressed the desire to initiate all appropriate legal proceedings to defend the legitimate interests of TV3 and Catalunya Radio.

CCMA bases its denial on the fact that the representation of the Ministry of Finance is not supported by any law, but only by a “change of position” from the same administration taxed. In fact, current legislation is what has allowed the CCMA apply the current system of deduction of VAT since the creation of this tax and even has been endorsed by the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Finance has paralyzed the payment of VAT to the CCMA yet to return from 2013 and also the amount for the year 2014 The sum of these activities between 2012 and 2014 remained “ an overall negative impact of 80, EUR 5 million and seriously compromise the viability of the CCMA. “

The CCMA has driven in the past four years, a viability plan to adjust their spending reality would budget containment of public sector in Catalonia, and has gone from managed with 457.5 million euros in 2010 to do with 290.8 million in 2014, which has been a 36% reduction of budgets .

Explanation of Finance

The Finance Ministry believes that the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation (CCMA) has been applied in a ‘wrong’ the VAT rules and has denied a “change of position” in the treatment of public television and radio stations. Sources of Finance explained that has always distinguished between two types of activities of these public audiovisual media: public service, excluding VAT, and those with a commercial purpose, such as advertising, that are themselves subject to VAT.

In addition, these sources have insisted that these criteria to all television and regional radio stations of Spain applied, and that this is a “technical” criteria merely. Thus, the Treasury has insisted that the CCMA has applied ‘erroneously rules deductibility of VAT’ , and step out into any political reading on this subject.