This Wednesday the Prime Minister defended raising the IUC on cars until 2007, saying “choices need to be made” and that meant cutting taxes on workers’ and pensioners’ incomes for “greater social justice”. “.
Following the resumption of the two-week debate, which now has a new model, IL President and MP Rui Rocha called on António Costa to abandon this measure of “fiscal cruelty” that affects the “most disadvantaged” people.
“Being involved in politics means making a choice. An MP must choose whether he would prefer 25 euros more in the IUC or less than 874 euros in the IRS,” he asked, citing as an example the IRS reduction for a couple who have two children and each earns. 1500 euros.
The choice of prime minister, in his own words, is “very simple.”
“I want to reduce taxes on income from work and on the income of pensioners because I want more social justice in Portugal,” he said.
According to António Costa, the opposition “must decide whether there will be a climate emergency every day or only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,” referring to the fact that this increase in IUC is driven by an environmental component.