The PSD president said on Saturday that the entity in Portugal that levied the most “exorbitant” extraordinary taxes on the Portuguese was “the socialist state”, and predicted that this tax on companies will be “a drop in the ocean”.
In an intervention at the 1st Iberian Youth Summit – organized by the Juventude Social Democrata (JSD) and the ‘Nuevas Generaciones’ (NNGG), the youth organization of the Spanish People’s Party – Luís Montenegro resorted to irony to say that, in the debate On the state budget, “it was touching” to see the Prime Minister and the government discuss the tax that will be levied on the extraordinary profits of certain companies, having initially ruled out that possibility.
“Given the news that there were companies making huge profits, the Prime Minister was quick to say that he would introduce a tax on so-called extraordinary profits. But, my friends, the company that had the most extraordinary profit in Portugal was the PS , the government and the central administrationcriticized.
Luís Montenegro said he agrees there must be social justice, but he predicted that this new corporate tax will be “a drop in the ocean of taxes” that he says will be more burdened by families, businesses and institutions.
“That entity that had extraordinary, exorbitant excess profits – not to say as many have obscenely said – was the socialist state, the state that wanted to make money at the expense of the effect of inflation on the economy,” he insisted, saying. that the PSD had already pointed out this possibility in April.
The PSD leader said Costa even “pulled the rabbit out of his hat” to tax distribution companies as well, without offering any resistance: “He wanted to talk a lot about the rabbit, that’s right”, in an implicit reference to the many times the name of former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho was mentioned in the budget debate.
“It was good that Dr Antonio Costa said in Parliament, ‘I am a tax collector, I confess, I have charged much more than I had already proposed to charge, or I return it with fairness and justice, or at least I have the decency to reduce the tax burden for the following year.” But that is not what will happen and this budget deserves a reference for that too, because there is immorality in the collection of taxes,” Montenegro accused.
Source: DN
