Spain Pledges to Hand Tax Powers to Catalan Regional Government

Spain is taking a major step towards a politically controversial handover of tax-income collection in Catalonia to the regional government.

The government will “work for the deployment of the Catalan tax agency and to advance changes in the law to allow it to progressively assume the management of income tax,” Territorial Policies Minister Angel Victor Torres said in a press conference Monday.

The move is part of a series of broader decisions by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez aimed at meeting demands from pro-independence Catalan parties, who offer crucial support for his minority government in parliament. The demand is also ...