Local housing, forced rental of vacant premises, renting – the final version of the “More housing” program promises to end with several changes from the government’s original proposal. Even with regard to measures already in place – the socialists want to convert the finance ministry’s understanding into a legislative letter that rent allowance must be based on gross income.
Now that the specialism (article by article) was voted on “More Housing”, the PS went up to the rent support measure with a proposal for an amendment – a clarifying rule – aimed at households registering a higher effort percentage of up to 35%. sixth step of the IRS, and which is already being implemented. As DN/DV reported, this measure – approved by decree law – was the subject of an order from the State Secretary for Tax Affairs, Nuno Santos Félix, dI send indications to the tax authorities so that gross incomes and special rates are taken into account, such as alimony or those related to renting – which narrows the universe of covered potential. An interpretation that has raised many doubts, as it changes the terms of the decree-law that instituted the measure, which stipulates that the income to be taken into account is “the total income calculated by the tax authorities for the purpose of determining the rate” (AT)” . That is, the collectible case. The discrepancy has already led to the PSD and BE announcing a request for a parliamentary hearing to the Minister of Finance, Fernando Medina, and the Minister of Housing, Marina Goncalves.
After the government approved an amendment to the law to clarify how the aid is calculated, the Yesterday, PS announced the presentation of an amendment standard in the context of the discussion in the specialism ‘More Housing’. The proposal should establish the Treasury’s interpretation that entitlement to aid should be calculated on the basis of gross income and not on the basis of the tax base. Eurico Brilhante Dias, leader of the Socialist Parliament, said yesterday that “when the income support was presented, the government defined a support target, a universe of families and, in addition, an expenditure to support this group of families. Today we know that about 185 thousand families have already received income support – fulfilling the objective of supporting the most vulnerable – and we know that the budget item of around EUR 240 million in expenditure will be met”.
For Luís Montenegro, the government is selling “a pig for a pig”. The PSD leader yesterday left a call for the president of the republic to veto any future amendments to the decree-law establishing rent support. “If the government wants to do what it appears to want, which is to turn the content of the dispatch into a legislative amendment, then I make a public appeal to the President of the Republic to veto this government’s intention and not let the Portuguese be misled again”, defended the Social Democratic leader.
Forced lease becomes “exceptional”
The PS proposals also include changes to one of the most controversial points of ‘Meer Wonen’, the forced letting of vacant properties, which is now taking on an exceptional character. According to the socialist proposal municipalities can “exceptionally and additionally proceed to forced letting of the property”, if this “turns out to be necessary to guarantee the social function of housing” provided for in the Basic Housing Act. According to Eurico Brilhante Dias, the amendment aims to “emphasize that the nature of forced leasing is clearly exceptional and is essentially based on the social function of housing, in fact as enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic”. It should be recalled that the forced rental of vacant premises was approved on several occasions by the President of the Republic, who expressed doubts about the constitutionality of this measure. In the specialty, the PS will also drop the proposal that established that the municipalities that refused to apply the forced rent would lose the right to charge the aggravated IMI on vacant properties.
Another topic on which changes will take place is Local Housing, one of the sectors that has most contested the measures of the executive’s plan, with the PS to reduce the extraordinary fee that will be applied to this sector from 20 to 15% (particularly apartments and accommodation companies integrated in construction fractions). Local housing units in own and permanent residence are exempt from this contribution, “provided that the operation does not exceed 120 days per year”. The possibility of a meeting of tenants who oppose the opening or existence of local accommodation in a building is also being changed: the government proposal required that this ban be approved for “more than half” of the permilage, now the PS that bar to “at most”. at least two-thirds of the building’s permit”. With Lusa
Source: DN
