This Wednesday, the PS filed a potential request to delay the vote on the PSD and CDS-PP replacement text for the government’s IRS cut proposal.
Parties supporting the government had scheduled a vote on the proposal for this Wednesday, but a PS request delayed the process, with Socialist MP António Mendonça Mendes saying the goal was to “reach an agreement in this process,” believing that “There is for there are all the conditions for this.”
A delay that made PSD deputy Hugo Carneiro “regret” this “blockade”, stressing that they will not allow any attempts to “complete the process”.
According to former Secretary of State for Financial Affairs and current Deputy PS António Mendonça Mendes, the postponement of the vote on the text replacing the government proposal to cut the IRS, signed by the PSD and CDS-PP, does not prevent workers and pensioners from being able to benefit from the new income tax tables from the beginning of July.
Mendonça Mendez also explained the delay by saying that the calendar was adjusted so that proposals for amendments could be submitted until May 31, and it was also decided to leave the government’s proposed legislation and bills in the IRS cutback process that were sent to committee. without voting.
“What we think is important is that we must allow negotiations and not rush a vote,” said António Mendonça Mendes, stressing that the Socialists’ goal is to “enable” negotiations and reach an agreement.
The two parties supporting the government introduced text replacing the executive’s proposal to cut the IRS, which retains the cuts to that tax in the sixth, seventh and eighth brackets, albeit in the sixth bracket with a smaller reduction than what the government had originally intended.
The marginal rate currently in force for income tax bands 6, 7 and 8 is 37%, 43.5% and 45%, respectively. The proposed PSD change indicates rates in the same order: 35%, 43% and 44.75%. The government’s original proposal was 34% for the sixth bracket and was identical to the replacement text proposal for the others.
The PS proposes a rate of 35.5% for the sixth level and keeps the current rates for the seventh and eighth levels unchanged.
The replacement text of the PSD/CDS-PP also asks the Government to evaluate in next year’s budget the updating of specific deductions based on changes in the Social Security Index and deductions for the collection of interest on housing loans.
On Tuesday, the SDP and SDS-PP called on the PS and Chegu to clarify their positions on the reduction of IRI and to allow the reduction of IRI already “in July or August”, leaving the “guerrilla games”.
At a press conference, the parliamentary leaders of the two parties supporting the government, Hugo Soares (SDS) and Paulo Nuncio (SDS-PP), presented a text replacing the executive proposal, which was downgraded to a specialty without a vote – with a view to being accepted into the Committee on Budget and Finance today and vote in plenary on Friday, in general, special and final global votes.
The PS also insisted on Tuesday that the replacement text presented by the PSD is “one-sided” and not the result of negotiations between all parties. The Socialists have already made concessions, “but there is no consensus yet,” said the vice-president of the PS parliamentary group.
On this occasion, Mendonça Mendez called for negotiations without “established facts.”
Today, faced with a delay imposed by the PS, the Social Democrat MP said his party would not give up its “right to complete the process”, also declaring that “negotiations” are not carried out through press conferences.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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