The PSD chairman on Thursday defended the application of a maximum IRS rate of 15% for young people under 35 and more attractive careers in public administration as a way to value and retain young people in Portugal.
Speaking at the opening of the conference “In the name of the future: the challenges of youth”, Luís Montenegro defended that, despite the country going through a “very difficult moment for many people”, to project the future and find qualified young to retain people in Portugal it is necessary “dare”.
And, for example, ‘have a tax regime for young people that is in fact more favorable than for other people who are active’.
“One of the themes I raised in this campaign [interna para a liderança do PSD]and it’s a commitment that I have, and that we’re going to fulfill soon now, because we’re going to have the discussion of the state budget, is that in Portugal, young people up to the age of 35 have a maximum income tax rate of 15%,” said the Social Democratic president.
According to Luís Montenegro, this measure, which appears in the strategic motion that led to the last party congress, “naturally ensures progressiveness and ensures that some, the highest incomes are left out, namely the last step of the IRS of the application of a measure of this magnitude”.
In this conference, organized by Rádio Renascença and Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, taking place at the Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon, Montenegro defended that this measure will have a “very big impact on those who start their active lives” and is a strategy “to identify, maintain what the economy and society need, to be competitive and productive in the years to come”.
In his approximately 30-minute speech, the PSD chairman also believed that public administration in the areas of salaries and career development should be an example to address young people.
And he pointed out that “a young graduate going into public administration these days, a senior manager, starts earning very little above the national minimum wage” and that his “career advancement prospects are very limited, warning that this” not exactly the most attractive way to get the best”.
“There is an urgent need for the government to have a human resources management system that can identify redundancies, the sites where resources are ultimately allocated that are low-profit, in the positive sense of that term – profitability in terms of providing quality of service, ratios, of productivity – while also knowing where the biggest gaps are, and we already know one”orphan.
And he argued that to fill these gaps, “attractive careers” and “policies that reconcile the three main sectors, the public, social and private sectors” are needed, taking health as an example.
Montenegro also stressed that “it is necessary to have an economic development that cannot grow through anemia”, and that an “economy that generates more wealth is necessary”, because “only through it can good salaries keep people”.
Regarding the housing problems of students in higher education, the PSD chairman pointed out that in 2018 the government “promised the country that the approximately 15,000 available accommodations would double in four years”, but lamented that the supply is currently exactly the same. correct one. same”, accusing the government of not fulfilling this commitment.
In this context, Luís Montenegro defended this “inability to be met with a complementary relationship between the offer of the public system and the possibility of contracting with the private sector, the social sector, with the local authorities, through legislative instruments to create that promote investments that do not have to wait only for the resources from the state budget”.
Regarding policies to promote birth, the PSD chairman warned it would take a few years to take effect, pointing out that “no one is changing the conditions for young couples to fulfill their ambition” to bring parents up from one year to the next. to be the other.
One of these measures concerns “universal access to daycare centers for all children”, but he believes it is necessary “not to waste the installed capacity of the private sector” because “equal opportunities are at stake”.
On this point, the Social Democratic leader added that the PSD has submitted a bill that will be discussed in the Assembly of the Republic next week.
Source: DN
