Spain Pledges to Hand Tax Powers to Catalan Regional Government
The government will 'work for the deployment of the Catalan tax agency and to advance changes in the law to allow it to progressively assume the management of income tax,' Territorial Policies Minister Angel Victor Torres said in a press conference Monday.
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