The president of the PSD said this Thursday that he was available to sign a Commitment to the Government “for 15 or 20 years” so that the IRS for young people up to 35 years old does not rise above 15%.
At the end of the PSD bench meeting, Luís Montenegro assured that the party will vote on its tax reduction proposals next week. saying that it is “the last chance” for the Government to lower the IRS this year.
On the other hand, he told the deputies to commit to his favor in this debate.
In the debate on the 20th, you will be able to tell the Government, the PS and the Prime Minister that, as leader of the PSD, I am willing to sign a commitment on behalf of the PSD so that in the next 15 or 20 years there will be no tax rates on income for people up to 35 years old, greater than 15%,” he stated, referring to the PSD proposal to reduce the IRS for young people.
For Montenegro, This commitment would allow this proposal to not only be cyclical: “Structurally and strategically, I want young Portuguese people to know that in the first 12, 14 or 15 years of their active life they will not have a tax higher than 15% and they will pay a third of what they pay today,” he stated. .
“Let it not be like these corrective measures and patches that Dr. António Costa makes up for by sleeping in inns or traveling by train”critical.
The PSD intends to reduce IRS rates for young people up to 35 years old to a maximum of 15% (except the last tranche) starting January 1, 2024.
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“With this regime, and with the exception of the last step, the marginal IRS rates for young people are reduced to 1/3 of the current rates, with a maximum of 15% in the penultimate step,” explain the social democrats, in the project -law that will be debated next Wednesday.
After the bench meeting, Luís Montenegro reiterated the challenge to the Government to lower the IRS in 2023, and rejected that the party should only present tax reduction proposals in the budget discussion, as suggested by the prime minister and the PS.
“We will surely vote now. If there is no tax reduction in 2023 it is because the Government did not want it,” she said, considering that “it is not moral” what the Portuguese are being charged extra.
In the Budget, he said, the party will present other tax proposals “not only on the IRS, but on other taxes.”
“If the PS does not want it, it is because it has a sensitivity that only makes itself heard when there are elections,” he criticized, stating that “the middle class cannot be the poor relation of Portuguese politics.”
Asked about Chega’s challenge for the PSD to approve an extraordinary contribution to banking, Montenegro referred to the proposals presented by the PSD in February and affirmed that what the Government is preparing to approve, in terms of real estate credit, will not be enough the solution of the Social Plan. Democrats.
The solution that the Government will present is more or less half of the one that was rejected when the PSD presented it: ours aimed to freeze the housing loan installments for five years and pay the remaining part at the end of the credit or until negotiation. with the banks an increase in maturities,” he said.
Source: Observadora
