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The main issue is that Catalonia pays a lot more tax than they receive back for public expenditure (Photo: Matthias Oesterle/ZUMA Wire/dpa)

Catalonia's fiscal feud with Spain

With the recent appointment of Pere Aragonès as president of the Generalitat, and the Republican Left Party of Catalonia (ERC) forming a pro-independence coalition with Junts, Catalan independence is once again a hot topic.

That discussion amplified last month, with talks of a potential pardon after a Supreme Court report on the Catlan political prisoners.

With an imminent face-to-face meeting between prime minist...

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Tom Canetti is a freelance journalist in Barcelona, focussing on corruption, conflict, macroeconomics, and political developments in Catalonia and the EU.

The main issue is that Catalonia pays a lot more tax than they receive back for public expenditure (Photo: Matthias Oesterle/ZUMA Wire/dpa)

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Tom Canetti is a freelance journalist in Barcelona, focussing on corruption, conflict, macroeconomics, and political developments in Catalonia and the EU.

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