The Government promises the EU a record collection and says that the recovery will come in 2022

The Government has sent this Friday the Budget Plan for 2022 to the European Commission, which includes both the macroeconomic scenario and the draft General Budgets of the State, as reported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.

The Executive maintains its forecast that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) will expand 6.5% this year and 7.5% in 2022. However, in his forecast is that “in 2022 he will recover the level of employment and GDP and in 2023 the path of pre-pandemic growth. ”This despite the fact that Nadia Calviño assured that they expected to reach that scenario by the end of the end of the year.

The planned budget for expenses in the General State Budget project will amount to 458,970 million euros in 2022, of which 27,633 will be European funds. The non-financial spending limit, known as ‘spending ceiling’, of the State Budget for 2022, it remains at 196,142 million euros, in line with the previous year (196,097), including extraordinary transfers to the autonomous communities and Social Security and part of the European funds.

In addition, the project foresees a collection of 232,352 million in tax revenue (before assignment to territorial entities) compared to 214,995 in the advance of the settlement of 2021 and 194,051 collected in 2020. It would be a record collection in public revenue, although the document does not establish measures to achieve these figures and entrusts it to economic recovery.