The Absence of a Regulation on Lobbies Opens the Door to Another Montoro Case

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The lawsuit amounts to more than a decade by the professionals of the lobby in Spain, who have been in the eye of the hurricane since the outbreak of the case surrounding the office founded by the former Minister of Finance, Cristóbal Montoro , accused by a court of Tarragona along with a large part of the dome that accompanied him in the ministry and that landed in the Economic Team. They urge that the activity to which they are engaged be regu…

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The Ministry of Finance led by Cristóbal Montoro proposed, as required by the Gasistas, to reduce to the maximum the controls to benefit from the new tax benefits on the same day that it held a meeting at the highest level with the signatures of that sector dotted by the Montoro case. Thus it is evident from the reports and emails incorporated to the cause, in which it is stated that such relaxation clashed with the criteria of the technicians, …

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The Montoro case has opened a complex debate on whether a minister of finance has the right to know confidential data of taxpayers handled by the Tax Agency (AEAT), reports prepared by judicial order or if he can give orders on specific inspections. The judge of Tarragona who investigates former minister Cristóbal Montoro for allegedly being part of a criminal plot within the Ministry of Finance, Rubén Rus, has relied on the criteria of the Chie…