Chega on Monday appealed to the President of the Republic to ask the Constitutional Court to preventively monitor the increase in the Single Road Tax (IUC) and proposed a maximum increase of 25% in four years, if the government measures.
“We ask and appeal to the President of the Republic to preventively submit this increase in the IUC to the Constitutional Court due to a flagrant violation of the Constitution”called Chega’s president, André Ventura, at a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Lisbon.
The Chega leader defended that this measure, provided for in the 2024 state budget proposal that will still be debated and voted on in parliament, “It is absolutely unconstitutional because it violates the principle of proportionality”.
However, if the government “persists in the blindness of increasing the IUC”, the Chega Parliamentary Group will propose that the Socialist Executive “accept a maximum increase clause of 25% in the next four years”.
André Ventura also said that the party will organize “a major national protest” on November 4 in Marquês de Pombal, in Lisbon, against the increase in the IUC – which was initially planned for the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance. but was changed for “safety reasons”.
The Chega leader admitted that he “still has hope” that the Prime Minister, António Costa, “will accept a turnaround on this issue”.
“But if this hope does not come true, and if the Minister of Finance remains intransigent on this issue, we really hope that all Portuguese can protest against this brutal tax increase”appealed.
This is an OE2024 measure that changes the tax rules, in terms of IUC, for category A vehicles registered before 2007 and motorcycles (category E), providing that they are no longer taxed solely on the basis of engine capacity (as is currently the case). case), which is now considered as the environmental component.
The increase cannot exceed 25 euros per year.
Source: DN
