The coordinator of the Bloc de Esquerda (BE), Mariana Mortagua, this Saturday accused Prime Minister Luís Montenegro (PSD) of creating an “art” regarding the cuts to the IRS and said that “the government considers Portugal a fool.” “.
“Luis Montenegro came up with a trick and watched as everyone allowed themselves to be deceived or were deceived by the news in the newspapers. Luis Montenegro made fools of journalists and deputies. The government thinks Portugal is a fool,” said Mariana Mortagua, speaking at a BE rally in Lisbon.
The BE rally called “Abril é na Rua!” took place in connection with the European elections on June 9, and was attended by about two hundred people.
Without making a statement to journalists, the BE coordinator addressed the government’s program [PSD/CDS-PP] in his speech at the end of the rally, criticizing the approach to modernity, progress and the future as “three buzzwords”, in which one of the measures is “reducing the IRC on profits from 21 to 15%”.
“If we lower income taxes, there will be more investment and the economy will grow,” this is, according to Mariana Mortagua, one of the prerequisites of the government program.
“Throughout the entire campaign, during the inauguration, after discussing the government program, the Prime Minister and the SDP opposed this measure of cutting the IRC, by a million dollars for those with millions in profits, the proposed IRS cut by 1,500 million euros. This promise was made on newspaper covers. TV news was made with this promise and now we know that this promise was false, that the supposed IRS reform does not reach 200 million euros,” he said.
The BE coordinator also stated that among all Montenegro’s promises, “the only ones that should be taken seriously are those that the employers’ confederation included in the government program, they are the only ones that matter, only they must be fulfilled.” .
We are talking about the reduction of the IRS provided for in the government program, with Finance Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento explaining in an interview with RTP on Friday that the 1,500 million euros announced by Prime Minister Luis Montenegro ultimately represent about 200 million euros, since they are not will be added to the more than 1,300 million euros in tax breaks included in the 2024 state budget and already in force.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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