The president of the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE), Alexandre Meireles, defended this Tuesday, the “acceleration of funds” of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), that he considers “essential to happen”and “some tax relief.”
Alexandre Meireles stressed that the Government has challenged companies to have “an increase of 20% in the average salary”, with which the ANJE agrees.
“We are in favor of raising the minimum wage from the beginning, I think it is essential in Portugal,” he stressed, also considering that the State can provide “some fiscal slack” following the margin that “there will be a result of inflation that many times will be it becomes a covert tax and, therefore, will provide greater tax collection”, said the ANJE president.
In the area of companies “we defend the issue of the differentiated IRC” for those who make the climate transition, the energy transition, he added.
“Much attention then to the poorest and most needy people, who I think naturally also have a very important role in society and should be aware of it,” he said.
In the case of pensioners and low-income people, the ANJE president argues that “there may be a break in the SII.”
In an open letter, ANJE challenges entrepreneurs to be at the forefront of economic and social transformationin a great effort of mobilization around their public proposals for the recovery of the country.
In addition to the differentiated tax incentives in terms of IRC for companies that value salaries or accelerate the energy, digital and green transition, ANJE also proposes the reduction and optimization of Public Administration servicesthrough the training of human resources, the digitization of processes and the decentralization of skills, as well as new instruments for the capitalization of companies, specifically within the framework of the Banco Português de Fomento.
also proposesin the open letter, better conditions, namely fiscal, for job creation and wage increases by companiespublic scrutiny, procedural transparency, speed in decision-making and de-bureaucratization in the execution of the new European funds, as well as the acceleration of the PRR funds.
“I don’t know if the Government is waiting to try to understand what is going to happen, since there will be other State Budgets, we are talking about four/five months to approve other State Budgets”, but “I think there would be slack, I think could have done” in what was recently approved, he said.
The Government calls for “an effort by companies to increase average wages, I believe that companies have made an effort and must continue to do so to increase wages, but a good part of the increase in wages is also associated with a tax burden and higher collection prosecutor” from the state government, he noted.
The president of ANJE defended that the State can “do it [alívio fiscal] on specific topics.
As for the differentiated IRC, “if we try to encourage companies to increase their salaries and the companies that do so, we try to give them a tax incentive so that the cost is more or less shared among all”, this can be “Also interesting ”, added the president of the association.
In the case of the IRS levels, “there will not be much to do, it will be to wait for the next State Budget”.
Alexandre Meireles highlighted the current unpredictability of inflation.
“If we had a more or less certain forecast that inflation would hit certain levels, but then from a certain point, early next year or late this year or the third quarter, whatever it was, it would be easier ”, this would be positive for entrepreneurs, which is not the case.
Regarding energy prices, Alexandre Meireles considered it “a complex issue” on its own, noticing that these were already rising, then the war led to an “even more abrupt” rise and no one was prepared for that.
“I do not know to what extent the Government has room for action, I know that there are many areas in which the European Union, namely the associated tax cuts and benefits for companies” have to support, “where I think the Government It is going to be done, it has a margin and where it does not depend is on the tax burden of labor taxes,” he said.
The president of ANJE defended that in the income tax, “both in the corporate tax and in the withholdings that it makes from the labor tax”, the Government “can counteract this part of everything that is increasing”.
This is because the “inflation […] for the Government it brings increases in income, I think that perhaps the Government can have some margin, without a large increase in public debt”, he considered, recalling that the Minister of Finance has defended correct public accounts, in which all the The world is in favor of it.
“I think there is room to contribute, the differentiated IRC is our flag that we want to continue talking about, it makes sense in a modern economy of the 21st century that the companies that contribute the most to economic growth have some benefits in this regard,” he concluded.
Source: Observadora
