For the parliamentary leader of the PS, the tax reform announced by the PSD in mid-August and presented yesterday at a press conference is a series of “separate proposals” that should only be discussed within the scope of the 2024 state budget. The topic is progressing . Outside of this debate, according to Eurico Brilhante Dias, the PSD will “ask the PS to abandon them”.
“The PSD anticipates proposals that should appear in the budget [do Estado]of 2024 and we will discuss that ” in this context, Brilhante Dias stated, accusing the Social Democrats of “irresponsible behavior” for ignoring the increase in social support expenditure.
The leader of the Socialist Bank responded to the four bills and the draft resolution presented by the PSD to the Assembly of the Republic at the beginning of this week, which confirmed what the party chairman, Luís Montenegro, had revealed in mid-August. This concerns the reduction of the IRS by EUR 1,200 million, for this year and next year, which has now reached Parliament in the form of a draft resolution. In addition, the Social Democrats have submitted four bills aimed at reducing the maximum IRS rate of 15% for young people up to 35 years of age, adjusting the IRS levels to inflation, creating a mechanism for Parliament to discuss what what needs to be done with inflation. the excess tax revenue and continue with IRS and TSU (Single Social Tax) exemptions for productivity bonuses worth up to 6% of annual base salary.
When asked by journalists whether the PS will vote against or for the IRS reform when it is discussed in parliament on September 20, Eurico Brilhante Dias sent the answer to the Social Democrats. “This is a decision of the PPD-PSD, it is not ours. You can choose 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 receive the analysis they deserve,” he stressed.
“Ahead of the vote, they ask the PS to reject them. I know it may be a political number, but the PSD seems to want to force the vote and have a budget discussion out of time.”, he said, recalling that the 2024 state budget proposal will appear in parliament on October 10. The Socialist delegate also accused the PSD of entering the “labyrinth of its contradictions” with these changes to the IRS, noting that the Social Democrats always voted against all Socialist state budgets that provided for a tax cut, and accused the Socialists delegate further believes that the PSD The Social Democrats for promoting the “biggest tax increase since April 25” and for arguing in the last elections that the priority should be lowering the IRC and not the IRS.
Cotton test for PS
“On the 20th [de setembro]the PS will face the final cotton test on how it wants to treat the Portuguese, especially the middle class, with regard to budgetary suffocation”, PSD Vice President António Leitão defended Amaro yesterday during the presentation of the five measures to reduce the IRS. According to the Social Democratic leader, the Socialists have promised successive cuts over the past eight years, but each year they broke “tax burden records”. In this sense, he wondered whether “on the side of the PS there will finally be a shock of conscience and acceptance of the need to reduce taxes for the middle class and young people”, or whether “on the other side it will and refuse the responsible but important assistance proposed by the PSD.”
During the presentation in the General Assembly of the Republic of the tax reform surrounding the IRS, social democratic speakers were questioned about the prudence of the measures presented. The PSD’s parliamentary leader, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, defended that these proposals are “completely prudent”, stressing that the proposed cuts are financed by excessive tax collection due to the rise in inflation, which will continue next year.
With Lusa
Source: DN
