AsiMeec requires removing the telecation rate

The employer sends a letter to the parliamentary groups around the RTVE Corporation Financing bill in which it requests to paralyze the project or withdraw the rate from electronic communications companies.

AsiCec, a employer who groups the companies of the Macro Spanish ICT Sector, has sent a letter to the parliamentary groups in which they request from them the stoppage of the Financing Law of the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation, or that the special rate of 0.9% to the electronic communications companies is removed from it. In the brief, Asselec shows its opposition to the draft law increase the fiscal pressure of the telecommunications sector and that tax revenues from the electronic communications sector are used to subsidize another sector, such as audiovisual, and specifically, to private televisions. In this letter, AsiMeec states that "it is obvious that the telecommunications sector does not benefit from the withdrawal of advertising in RTVE, as ensured, mistakenly, in the text of this bill." On the other hand, the employer considers the figure of this new rate in the current telecommunications right, both Spanish and European.

In assimelec's opinion, the Government has not considered the warnings of the State Council and the Telecommunications Market Commission, nor has it consulted the sectors involved, “and has decided to follow a very questioned model, which has only been applied recently in a single country, and that has already been warned as illegal by the European Commission, a project prepared with haste involved, ”according to the text sent to parliamentary groups.

En opinión de Martín Pérez, presidente de ASIMELEC, “es injusto penalizar a un sector que contribuye al desarrollo de nuestra economía y crea riqueza, un sector privado, que está invirtiendo en las nuevas infraestructuras de red, que son el motor del desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información en España”.

Por último, ASIMELEC aboga por abrir un proceso de debate transparente con todos los agentes sociales. La Patronal cree imprescindible este diálogo y recuerda que el propio Consejo de Estado cuestionaba que no habían sido consultados los sectores implicados. Para ASIMELEC “este debate ha de tener en cuenta las necesidades de todos y no solamente el beneficio de un sector, como el de las televisiones privadas, que como los demás sectores tienen que hacer viable su modelo de negocio y no buscar el subsidio, bien a través de fondos públicos o con la intervención, como es el caso, de fondos de otros sectores, que nada tienen que ver ni se benefician de las medidas de este Proyecto de Ley”.

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