The president of the Barcelona Boat Show, Luis Conde, urged this Wednesday the Finance Minister, Cristóbal Montoro, to eliminate the matriculation tax on private yachts.
This tax of 12% is levied on yachts over the length of 8 m. He added that in his opinion no other party would act on this. "If this is not done by PP, nobody else will do it. We have to try to make Montoro a sailor, as he is the one sitting on the cash register", Conde said during the press conference at the presentation of the boat show.
Along the same vein, he explained that the other ministers involved - Pastor and Soria - are already willing to accept the demands from the sector. According to Conde, this lessening of the tax burden would put us in equal footing with our neighbors and would boost the sector by attracting more tourist, and that way increase the tax revenue: "Sun, 8.000 km of coast line, sympathetic people and islands we already have".
The Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations, on the proposal by the Ministry of Public Works, indeed announced in July the modification of the matriculation tax on recreational yachts over 15 m dedicated to commercial use.
QUALIFICATIONS
The General Secretary of the National Association of the Nautical Enterprises (ANEN), Carlos Sanlorenzo, has requested the Government to change the law of nautical qualifications, extending the maximum lengths allowed in recreational yacht skippers licenses.
Sanlorenzo has expressed his preoccupation for the increase of second hand yacht sales - which, according to his estimations, may be four times the sales of brand new yachts - and would call for a similar plan for the nautical sector as PIVE is for cars.
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