Fiscal balances? The banking and employers' research services have suppres...

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The Generalitat of Catalonia uses the fiscal deficit as an argument to demand a fiscal pact and independence. However, the most reliable research services of banks and employers consider these studies unreliable and very manipulable. And they resist doing them so as not to provide more arguments for nationalism.  leading research service now makes fiscal balances to measure the relationships between the autonomies and the central government. Technical sources consulted by El Confidencial Digital explain that in Spain there is no climate of academic consensus and neutrality, as in Germany or the United States, countries with a tradition in the development of this accounting tool. In these two countries, the lander and states do "fair and professional accounting" and not for political use.

The work of Julio Alcaide Fiscal balances, which were implemented in Spain by FUNCAS (the savings bank research service) in the 1980s, have been removed from the research and publication catalogs of all top-level research services. Media close to FUNCAS have pointed out to ECD that "fiscal balances are not a research tool: they are a Middle East Mobile Number List  political weapon. They lack a system for imputation of income and expenses accepted by the scientific community. Their results are always biased, or suspicious, depending on the method used." Julio Alcaide, father of Spanish statistics, published Spain's first regional fiscal balance in FUNCAS in the mid-80s and, given the commotion that arose, he decided not to publish them again. The fiercest criticism came from nationalist parties and experts linked to those parties.



These criticisms ignored the fact that the study recognized the fiscal deficit of wealthy communities. The most common criticism was that its methodology was not correct and therefore a sufficient fiscal deficit did not emerge. The work of the Institute of Fiscal Studies Subsequently, Antoni Castells, Minister of Economy of the Catalan tripartite, asked the Socialist government to publish the fiscal balances. Zapatero fell into the trap and commissioned the study to the Institute of Fiscal Studies. It was published in 2006, and from there began the Catalan demand for a new financing model. The fiscal balances had gone from an object of investigation to political ammunition. Currently, neither the research services of large banks, savings banks, nor employers' associations include fiscal balances in their research panel. They stopped making them as a result of the Catalan offensive.