Live / Rui Rocha. The country discusses an exemption of 5 to 7 euros from the IRS for those who earn 1,200 euros

The president of the Liberal Initiative, Rui Rocha, denounced that the country is discussing a relief of 5 to 7 euros in the IRS for those who earn 1,200 euros gross, proposing, instead, a relief of 84 euros.

“Think of someone who earns 1,200 euros a month, gross. This whole discussion, the importance it has in people’s pockets, which is what matters, is a discussion that, for this salary of 1,200 gross per month, there is a reduction of 5 or 7 euros. This is what they have been discussing for days, weeks. 5 or 7 euros are reduced in the pockets of these people,” criticized Rui Rocha today, in Porto.

The liberal leader spoke during a pre-campaign dinner at a restaurant in Miragaia (Porto), where he was accompanied by the head of the IL list for the European elections on June 9, João Cotrim Figueiredo.

“They make this a big discussion, as if it were something absolutely decisive to transform people’s lives, and it is not. We are talking about 5 or 7 euros,” she reiterated.

On the other hand, he mentioned that “there is a proposal” from the Liberal Initiative (IL) “for this same person who earns 1,200 euros gross per month, which leaves him with 84 euros left” in the Treasury, he highlighted. “That is why I challenge you to stop discussing whether there are 5 or 6 or 7, and discuss whether there are 84, as we propose,” said the liberal leader.

On Friday, the PS presented a new proposal to lower the IRS, challenging the Government to find “a balanced solution” in which there is tax relief for all income, but with a greater impact on average salaries.

“It is important that the Government accepts what is an option that seems correct to us and that is transversal to the parliamentary left and right of which the majority wins. [no alívio do IRS] either for those who have the average salary,” PS deputy António Mendonça Mendes told journalists in a presentation to journalists of this new proposal. According to Mendonça Mendes, with this new formulation, the PS ensures that “only around a third” of the 348 million euros that the Government foresees for this tax reduction “is for the richest 10%.”