The President of the Liberal Initiative, Rui Rocha, said this Saturday that the country is discussing benefits of 5-7 euros at the IRS for those who earn 1,200 euros gross, proposing instead a benefit of 84 euros.
“Think about someone who earns 1,200 euros a month gross. This whole discussion, its implications for people’s pockets, and this is the main thing, is a discussion about what with this salary of 1200 euros gross per month, if there is a reduction of 5 or 7 euros. They have been talking about this for several days and weeks. These people’s pockets are reduced by 5 or 7 euros,” criticized Rui Rocha in Porto.
The Liberal leader spoke this Saturday at a pre-election dinner in a restaurant in Miragaia (Porto), where he was accompanied by the head of the IL list for the June 9 European elections, João Cotrim Figueiredo.
“They make this huge discussion as if it is something absolutely decisive in changing people’s lives, but it is not. We are talking about 5 or 7 euros,” he repeated.
On the other hand, he noted that “there is an offer” from the Liberal Initiative (IL) “for the same person who earns 1,200 euros gross per month, which reduces by 84 euros” from the IRS, he emphasized.
“Therefore, I urge you to stop discussing whether it is 5, 6 or 7, and discuss whether it is 84, as we propose,” the Liberal leader said.
On Friday, PS unveiled a new proposal to cut the IRS, calling on the government to find a “balanced solution” that includes tax breaks for all incomes but with a greater impact on average wages.
“It is important that the government agrees on an option that seems right to us and that is transversal for the parliamentary left and right, from which most of the benefits [no alívio do IRS] be it for those with an average salary,” PS deputy António Mendonça Mendes told reporters when presenting this new proposal to reporters.
According to Mendonça Mendes, thanks to this new formulation, the PS will ensure that “only about a third” of the 348 million euros that the government envisages for this tax cut “will go to the richest 10%.”
The socialist assured that his party is “conducting these negotiations in good faith and in a spirit of openness,” admitting that they “have not experienced the same openness from the government.”
“We do not agree with the lowering of Band 8 rate caps as proposed by the government,” he warned, calling on the PSD/CDS-PP chief to “refuse to transfer about 50% of the margin to the top 10%.”
On Wednesday, PSD unveiled a proposal to replace the government’s IRS proposal by strengthening rate cuts in Bands 3 and 4 and increasing the rate in Band 6, which also clears the way for annual band renewals.
The announcement of the new PSD proposal came during a two-week debate with the Prime Minister, where the leader of the parliamentary group of the Social Democrats, Hugo Soares, said that the aim of the new text was to bring it closer to the PS proposals. Chega and BE.
Last week, the PS, as reported by the Lusa agency, sent a replacement text to the PSD, BE and PCP, which aims to harmonize the various IRS projects discussed in the specialty, considering it possible to “ensure a broad consensus” on the approval of the measure.
This text will replace the government’s proposed legislation, as well as PS, Chega, IL, BE and PCP’s own bills.
On April 24, Parliament as a whole approved without a vote the PS, BE, and PCP IRS proposals, as well as the government’s requests, Chega’s, and IL’s proposals to downgrade the specialty to specialty.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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