The president of the PSD defended this Thursday the application of a maximum IRS rate of fifteen% for young people up to 35 years old 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 fact that the country is going through a “very difficult moment for many people”, projecting the future and retaining qualified young in portugal it is It is necessary to “dare” and “have the courage to have bold policies from the fiscal point of view“.
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And, for example, “having a tax regime for young people that is effectively more favorable than it is for other people who are in active life“.
One of the issues that I addressed in this campaign (internal to the leadership of the PSD), and it is a commitment that I have, and that we are now going to consummate shortly, also because we are going to have a discussion of the State Budget, is that in Portugal young people up to 35 years of age have a maximum IRS rate of 15%”, said the social democratic president.
According to Luís Montenegro, this measure, which appears in the strategic motion that resulted in the last party congress, is being designed, “naturally guaranteeing progressivity, ensuring that some, those with higher incomes, are left out, that is, 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, which takes place at the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon, Montenegro argued that this the measure will have a “very large impact on those who are starting their active life” and it is strategic “to fix, retain what the needs of the economy, of society, to be competitive and productive in the coming years.”
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In his speech, which lasted about 30 minutes, the president of the PSD also considered that, when it comes to salaries and career progression, the public administration must set an example to attract young people.
And he pointed out that “a young graduate who currently goes to public administration, a senior manager, starts earning very little above the national minimum wage” and his “prospect for professional progression is very limited, warning that this” is not exactly what plus”. attractive way to get the best.
“IT IS There is an urgent need for human resources management in the public administration that can identify redundancies, the places where resources that have little profitability are eventually allocated, in the positive sense of the term —profitability in terms of offering quality of service, ratios, productivity— and at the same time know where the main gaps are. they are, and we already know some of them,” he pointed out.
And argued that to fill these gaps “Attractive careers” and “policies that reconcile the three major sectors, public, social and private” are needed.“, taking health as an example.
Montenegro also stressed that “it is necessary to have an economic development that cannot go through anemic growth”, demanding an “economy that generates more wealth” because “only that will allow good salaries to retain people”.
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Regarding the housing difficulties of higher education students, the president of the PSD pointed out that, in 2018, the The Government “promised the country that the approximately 15,000 available accommodations would double in four years” but regretted that, currently, the offer “is exactly the same”, accusing the Government of not having been able to fulfill this commitment.
In this context, Luís Montenegro defended that this “incapacity must be overcome with a complementary relationship between the supply of the public system and the contracting capacity with the private sector, with the social sector, with local authorities, creating legislative instruments that enhance investments that do not have to wait solely and exclusively for the funds of the General State Budgets”.
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Regarding policies to promote birth rates, the PSD president warned that they take a few years to take effect and pointed out that “no one changes the conditions for young couples to fulfill their ambition” of being parents from one year to the next.
One of these measures goes through “universal access to day care for all children”, but, he considered, it is necessary “not to waste the installed capacity of the private sector” because “equal opportunities are at stake”.
At this point, the social democratic leader said that the PSD presented a bill that will be debated next week in the Assembly of the Republic.
Source: Observadora
