Last Tuesday, the PS accused the PSD of submitting “individual proposals” for tax cuts and only admits to analyzing them in the context of the next budget, warning that if it is voted on earlier “the PSD is asking the PS. to make them fail’. .
The leader of the PS Parliament, Eurico Brilhante Dias, responded to the presentation of five tax reduction measures presented this morning by the PSD, four bills to enter into force in 2024 and a resolution recommending the government to reduce the IRS in 2023 .
“The discussion about taxes is not only about the dimension of income, we also have the dimension of expenditure. The PSD anticipates proposals that should appear in the 2024 budget and which we will discuss in OE2024,” he stated, accusing the Social Democrats of “irresponsible behavior” by allowing the increase in social support expenditure to ignore.
When asked whether the PS will not pass these proposals – which will be debated in parliament on the 20th and put to a vote the following Friday – Brilhante Dias answered the question back to the Social Democrats.
“This is a decision of the PPD-PSD, it is not ours. You can take the option not to put them to the vote and have this discussion in the budgetary context. If they are considered in the budgetary context, they will get the analysis they deserve,” he said.
Otherwise, he opined, “there is no point in voting on separate standards for 2024,” saying the future of these proposals “depends on the PSD and not on the PS.”
“Ahead of the vote, they ask the PS to reject them. I know it can be a political number, but the PSD seems to want to force the vote and have a budget discussion out of time,” he said, emphasizing that the next state budget will come into parliament on October 10.
Eurico Brilhante Dias again accused the PSD of entering the “labyrinth of its contradictions” with the tax cut proposals presented, claiming that the Social Democrats had voted against all PS budgets containing tax cuts. tax increase since April 25” and in the last election they argued that the priority should be cutting the IRC and not the IRS.
“The PS faction is very calm. It has always defended the reduction of the IRS, we have approved budgets that have reduced the IRS and we will continue to approve budgets that will continue this reduction,” he said.
In addition to the political criticism, the PSD leader emphasized that technically the PSD has chosen to submit bills that will come into force in 2024 in order not to violate the ‘braking standard’ and to use the resolution format (without the force of law) . to this year’s tax cut proposal.
“The right accounts for the PSD only lead to a decrease in revenues without looking at the expenditure side, it is irresponsible behavior,” he criticized, saying that the government has approved nine billion euros in expenditure between 2022 and 2023 to combat support inflation. .
Within the framework of the next state budget, the PS promises to analyze all proposals, but only if it knows what the expected deficits for 2024 will be, what income and expenditure there will be in 2024, what the investments will be in the NHS and public sector. schools or what extra is spent on increasing pensions.
“It is no coincidence that the Constitution has a standard in an article that puts a brake on the budget exercise by parliamentary groups, because it knows that the balance between income and expenditure is precarious (…) The discussion about the OE is made of income and expenditure, discussing only revenue is not enough,” he stressed.
The PSD had today declared that the PS would face its “cotton test” when voting on its tax cut proposals, and asked for a “shock of conscience” from the Socialists to approve the Social Democrats’ “cautious but significant” tax cut.
The PSD’s five proposals include reducing the IRS by 1,200 million euros in both 2023 and 2024, reducing the maximum rate of 15% for the IRS for young people up to 35 years old, mandatory updating of the IRS brackets depending on inflation, creating a mechanism for parliament to decide what to do with the tax surplus and exemptions from IRS and TSU for productivity bonuses worth up to 6% of annual basic salary.
Source: DN
