The chairman of the PSD said on Thursday that he is available to sign a commitment with the government “for 15 or 20 years” so that the IRS for young people up to 35 years old does not exceed 15%.
At the end of the PSD meeting, Luís Montenegro assured that the party will vote on its tax cut proposals next week, saying that this is “the last chance” for the government to cut the IRS this year.
On the other hand, he told the deputies to make a commitment on his behalf in this debate.
“In the debate on the 20th you can tell the government, the PS and the Prime Minister that: As leader of the PSD, I am ready to sign a commitment on behalf of the PSD so that in the next fifteen to twenty years there will be no income tax rates for individuals up to 35 years of age that exceed 15%,” he said. , referring to the PSD’s proposal to reduce the young IRS.
For Montenegro, this commitment would make it possible that this proposal is not just cyclical: “Structurally and strategically, I want young Portuguese to know that in the first twelve, fourteen or fifteen years of their working life they will not have taxes exceeding fifteen percent and will pay a third of what they are paying today,” he said.
“Let it not be like these recovery and recovery measures that Dr. António Costa comes up with when he sleeps in inns or travels by train,” he criticized.
The PSD intends to reduce the IRS rates for young people up to the age of 35 to a maximum of 15% from January 1, 2024 (except for the last bracket).
“With this regime, and with the exception of the last step, the marginal IRS rates for young people will be reduced to 1/3 of the current rates, with a maximum of 15% in the penultimate step,” the Social Democrats explain in the project law that will be debated next Wednesday.
After the session, Luís Montenegro reiterated the challenge to the government to reduce the IRS in 2023, rejecting that the party should only present tax reduction proposals in the budget discussion, as proposed by the Prime Minister and the PS.
“We will definitely vote on it now. If there is no tax cut in 2023, it is because the government did not want it,” he said, considering that what the Portuguese are being charged extra is “not moral.”
In the budget, he said, the party will present other tax proposals “not only on the IRS, but also on other taxes.”
“If the PS does not want that, it is because it has a sensitivity that only makes itself heard when there are elections,” he criticized, saying that “the middle class cannot be the poor relative of Portuguese politics.”
Asked about Chega’s challenge to the PSD to approve an extraordinary contribution to the banking system, Montenegro referred to the proposals presented by the PSD in February and said that what the government is preparing to approve, in terms of housing loans, is not will meet the solution of the social crisis. Democrats.
“The solution that the government will present is more or less half of the solution it rejected when presented by the PSD: ours was to freeze housing loan payments for five years and leave the remainder at the end of to pay the credit. or even negotiate with banks for an extension of terms,” he said.
PS sees with “bewilderment” the PSD’s challenge to compromise on the young IRS
The PS parliamentary leader said on Thursday that he saw with “astonishment” the PSD’s challenge to reach an agreement with the government on the young IRS and advised the Social Democratic president consistency on the tax cut issue.
Eurico Brilhante Dias spoke to journalists at the end of the first meeting of the Socialist Bank after the holidays and a few minutes after the leader of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, expressed his willingness to sign a commitment with the government “before 15 or 20 years”. so that the IRS for young people up to 35 years old does not exceed 15%.
Montenegro’s challenge was seen with “some surprise” by Brilhante Dias, claiming that the same “party that now says it wants to sign a 15-year deal has quickly scheduled budget proposals for next week that will come into effect on January 1, 2024.” “.
Given all this, “some coherence was worthwhile”, emphasized the PS deputy, for whom “one cannot launch proposals on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, others on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday”.
“The chairman of the PSD is in some frenzy in this regard,” the PS parliamentary leader emphasized, reiterating that the measures presented by the Social Democrats will be implemented during the debate on next year’s state budget. analyzed.
“That is what we have to focus on and that is where we will of course analyze all the PSD’s proposals,” said Eurico Brilhante Dias.
Source: DN
