Almost 3,000 gas stations have already charged this week advances of the bonus of 20 cents on the sale of fuel that has been approved by the Government to curb the rise in prices. However, one of them has been a big surprise when reviewing the income.
The decree law approved by the Executive establishes that service stations can request a advance of 90% of the monthly average of your 2021 sales. In the case of this gas station, the advance It must have been 5,000 euros and instead the payment made by the Treasury has been two million euros.
Industry sources, consulted by ABChave affirmed that this mistake, which has been registered in Catalonia, is about “a serious mistake” and of “one more example of the numerous problems we are having both in requesting these advances and in receiving themsince the requested money is arriving with a dropper”.
However the Director General of the Tax Agency, Jesús Gascónhas defended that “the same Friday (when the measure came into force) we already made available to all service stations the electronic form to submit the advance request, during the weekend we have been doing tests and already Since Monday we have begun to process payment orders”.
Late payments due to financial reasons
Gascón himself has justified that the delay in receiving the advances that the gas stations complain about is due to the fact that “Since the entities receive the payment order from the Treasury, it may take between 24 and 48 hours to become effective. depending on the times in which each entity moves”.
The bonus in the price of fuel approved by the Executive will be in force until next June 30 and it will be 20 cents per liter of fuel. The State will assume 15 cents and the oil companies a minimum of 5 cents. Treasury estimates that the budgetary cost of this measure will be 1,423 million euros.