Cristóbal Montoro, the longest-serving Minister of the Treasury in history (he held the position under José María Aznar as president from 2000 to 2004 and under Mariano Rajoy from 2011 to 2018), is charged along with 27 other people with alleged bribery, fraud against the public administration, and his alleged relationship with senior officials and the firm he founded, Equipo Económico.

Amazon, the well-known e-commerce company, did not pay any corporate tax in 2020 in eight European countries, including Spain, where it had a total turnover of more than 44,000 million euros. How did it do it? Well, by paying tax only in Luxembourg, where the parent company of the European subsidiaries is based. This is a legal but clearly unfair practice, since it deprives the states where a large part of the economic activity takes place from obtaining resources through taxes. On the other hand, this money is concentrated in low-tax countries, such as Luxembourg, which practise tax dumping. This is what the agreement of 136 countries representing 90% of the world's GDP to apply a minimum corporate tax rate of 15% for multinationals with a turnover of more than 750 million euros aims to avoid.