PS/Madeira insisted on Tuesday in challenging the Regional Government (PSD/CDS-PP) to return to families 87 million euros of extraordinary income that it should collect due to the increase in inflation and for not applying the maximum tax differential of 30 % .
“The Regional Government does not have solutions to present to families and companies”, said the Madeiran socialist leader, deputy Sérgio Gonçalves, in an intervention in the Legislative Assembly, in the period prior to the agenda.
Sérgio Gonçalves stressed that the “brutal increase in the cost of living” in the archipelago “only made more evident the inertia” of the executive and his “inability” to support the population, also accusing him of using “misleading advertising” and not fulfilling anything of what it promises.
The president of the PS, the largest regional opposition party, indicated that the PSD/CDS-PP government will collect 87 million euros of extraordinary income through VAT (consumption tax), taking into account inflation and that it is applied the maximum reduction of 30% provided for in the Regional Treasury Law.
It is scandalous that the Regional Government is preparing to channel PRR funds [Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência] and extraordinary income for megalomaniac works of dubious utility”, he said, referring to projects such as the expansion of the port of Funchal and the construction of a tunnel from end to end of the city.
Sérgio Gonçalves affirmed that the 87 million euros must be returned to the residents of the archipelago and indicated that the PS has already presented proposals in the regional parliament in this regard, pointing, for example, to the allocation of 300 euros to each Madeiran with a salary. of less than 2,700 euros and 500 euros for each descendant, as well as 300 euros for each institutionalized person.
The socialist leader said that, in total, the return of 87 million euros would mean 915 euros for each Madeiran family.
Sérgio Gonçalves’ intervention did not provoke any reaction from the majority of the PSD/CDS-PP.
Source: Observadora
