The PSD President said this Thursday that he is ready to sign a commitment with the government “for 15 or 20 years” so that the IRS for young people under 35 does not rise above 15%.
At the end of the PSD collegium meeting, Luis Montenegro assured that the party will vote on its tax cut proposals next week, saying this is the “last opportunity” for the government to cut the IRS this year.
On the other hand, he advised MPs to commit themselves on his behalf in this debate.
“In the debate on the 20th you can tell the government, the PS and the Prime Minister that, as leader of the SDP, I am prepared to sign a pledge on behalf of the SDP that for the next 15 or 20 years there will be no personal income tax rates under 35 years exceeding 15%,” he said, referring to the SDP proposal to lower the IRS for young people.
For Montenegro, this commitment would allow this proposal not to be simply cyclical: “I want structurally and strategically young Portuguese 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 will pay three times more than they pay today,” he said.
“Let it not be like the remedial and remedial measures that Dr. António Costa invents when he sleeps in hotels or travels by train,” he criticized.
The SDP intends to reduce IRS rates for young people under 35 to a maximum of 15% (excluding the latter group) from January 1, 2024.
“Under this regime, with the exception of the last step, the IRS marginal rates for young people are reduced to 1/3 of the current rates, with a maximum of 15% in the penultimate stage,” the Social Democrats explain in the draft law, which will be discussed next Wednesday.
After the collegium meeting, Luis Montenegro repeated his call for the government to lower the IRS in 2023 and rejected the party’s proposal to present only proposals for tax cuts when discussing the budget, as proposed by the Prime Minister and the PS.
“We will definitely put this issue to a vote now. If there is no tax cut in 2023, it is because the government did not want it,” he said, believing that what the Portuguese were charging extra was “not moral.”
In the budget, he said, the party will present other tax proposals “not just for the IRS, but for other taxes.”
“If the PS does not want this, it is because it has a sensitivity that only makes itself known during elections,” he criticized, saying that “the middle class cannot be the poor cousin of Portuguese politics.”
Asked about Cega’s proposal to the PSD to approve an emergency contribution to banking, Montenegro referred to the proposals presented by the PSD in February and said that what the government is preparing to approve regarding the housing loan does not correspond to the decision of the Social Program. Democrats.
“The solution the government will present is about half the same as the one it rejected when presented by the SDP: ours aims to freeze home loan installments for five years, with the remainder paid either at the end of the loan term. or even negotiate with banks to increase repayment terms,” he said.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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