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Madrid reserves the right to recover taxes transferred to the Generalitat The Government has already prepared the 'men in black' to displace Catalonia. A delegation of Treasury technicians will be installed in Barcelona in case a deviation of the deficit in the Catalan public accounts is detected. If necessary, Madrid retains the possibility of recovering taxes transferred to the Generalitat if there is non-compliance with the adjustment plan. Government sources, the commission of experts in charge of assessing the economic and budgetary situation of Catalonia is already supervising the accounts of this community to monitor what they are doing to reduce their deficit . But it is still done from Madrid. The Treasury will choose to send its 'vigilantes' to Barcelona if it detects important budget deviations. Its mission will be to control that Artur Mas ' Executive is complying with the sacrifices required in exchange for the line of credit of 5,023 million that the State is going to grant in the coming weeks from the Autonomous Liquidity Fund .
Recover taxes transferred to Catalonia According to the sources consulted by ECD, the Government also reserves an important 'ace' up its sleeve, in case it were necessary to force Catalonia to make all the necessary efforts to meet the 1.5% deficit objective this year, and thus avoiding the deployment of the 'men in black' in the Middle East Mobile Number List Palau de la Generalitat. The Treasury has already informed Artur Mas' team that the regulatory powers attributed to the Autonomous Communities in relation to the transferred taxes will be exercised by the State, if they fail to correct the budgetary deviations . This would mean a full-fledged intervention in the accounts of Catalonia. Something that especially irritates the Catalan president, who has threatened that if Mariano Rajoy's "men in black" intervene in the treasury of the Generalitat, and we find ourselves in a situation of extreme usurpation of political power, I will call early elections "(if the legislature exhausts, it would be appropriate to do so at the end of ).

Who are the 'men in black'? Sources familiar with the process explain to ECD that the 'men in black' will come, specifically, from the General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE). The exact number of members that will make up this possible mission that would be sent to Barcelona is unknown at the moment . exp-player-logo The first national wheelchair soccer league starts today in Cantabria The Treasury technicians who will be in charge of this work have already received the first instructions , in the event of having to urgently travel to Barcelona. Once there, they must diagnose the exact financial situation of Catalonia and compliance with the adjustment plan. Within a maximum of one month from the start of the mission, they will have to send their report to the Minister of Finance, Cristóbal Montoro . This is a process similar to that being carried out by the 'troika' (European Commission.
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