The PCP defends the taxation of extraordinary profits in all sectors, as the government’s proposal is not very ambitious as it is limited to oil companies and distribution companies.
“What we propose is that these profits made at the expense of the population, at the expense of speculative prices, be taxed in an extraordinary way,” That’s what Communist deputy Duarte Alves told Lusa, justifying the presentation of a bill that will be debated this Tuesday along with the executive branch’s proposal.
The Assembly of the Republic is today debating in plenary session the government’s bill for the taxation of extraordinary profits. With an absolute majority in parliament, the socialist management diploma has secured approval, but the PCP deems it insufficient, as it “excludes the electricity sector, banking and insurance companies”.
The communists propose that the tax “cover these sectors as well and not just stop at oil companies and food distribution”.
“On the other hand, [queremos] a broader scope than that of the government, because our proposal is that the extraordinary tax should apply to above-average profits from recent years and not just a portion of those profits when they cross the 20% threshold,” he added .
Over the course of Monday afternoon, Duarte Alves met several organizations representing workers in these sectors and several businessmen who revealed “the difficulties” they are going through and the “suffocation” they feel at the country’s largest companies. like Galp, EDP, SONAE or Jerónimo Martins.
The PCP presented the proposal for “some fiscal justice” that counterbalances the profits of the largest economic groups which “continue to rise in an absolutely outrageous way”.
“Even small companies are victims of the dominance of large economic groups,” argued the deputy, whowho replaced former PCP general secretary Jerónimo de Sousa when he stepped down as deputy.
And while there is an accumulation of profits on the part of these companies, “which are appropriating an ever-increasing margin,” continued Duarte Alves, workers feel a “real cut in wages” and purchasing power.
“There is no reason not to approve the PCP’s proposal,” he concluded.
Source: DN
