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humor El Mundo Today 2026-04-23

Government Raises Book Tax on Journalist Sonsoles Ónega.

The government decided that Sonsoles Ónega's books needed more tax, apparently to discourage their reading. Sounds like a dramatic cultural intervention.


<figure><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="405" src="https://emtstatic.com/2026/04/sonsoles-600x405.png" width="600" /></figure>El Gobierno ha anunciado esta mañana un incremento del IVA a los libros de la periodista Sonsoles Ónega. El ministro de Cultura, Ernest Urtasun, ha tomado esta decisión al descubrir con perplejidad que a las publicaciones de la escritora solo se les aplicaba el 4% de este impuesto. «Se trata de desincentivar el consumo de [&#8230;]

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