The government urgently needs diplomas to “buy back” 783 million from the PRR and exemption from BMI

The government has scheduled an urgent debate on Tuesday on proposals to exempt young people from IMT and to “buy back” the €783 million withheld under the Recovery and Resilience Program (PRR).

According to the representative of the leadership conference, Social Democratic MP Jorge Paulo Oliveira, these two executive diplomas could be brought to the plenary session on Tuesday after the permission given by the CDS-PP, which held a debate on that day on November 25, 1975, was potentially reserved in a positive way.

The first of two government bills urgently scheduled for this Wednesday’s leaders’ meeting focuses on the capital market, “an important condition for Portugal to access the 783 million euros held” in Brussels.

According to the executive, only when this amount from the third and fourth tranches of the PRR is released will the Portuguese state be able to move on to requesting the fifth payment, which is estimated at around 1.8 billion euros.

The second diploma, urgently planned by the chief executive of PSD/CDS-PP, is a result of measures taken by the government to respond to the housing crisis and aims to provide young people under 35 years of age with an exemption from onerous council property transfer tax (IMT). ) when buying your first home.

The exemption applies to the purchase of a first home worth up to €316,772 – regardless of each young person’s income – with a government guarantee of up to 15% of the purchase price, with a limit of €450,000.

At the leaders’ conference this Wednesday, the 20th, in addition to the proposals for a parliamentary inquiry into the Santa Casa da Misericordia case in Lisbon (presented by the Bloc de Esquerda, Chega and the Liberal Initiative), four legislative initiatives are being discussed, two from the PSD and two others from the government.

In its initiatives, the PSD brings to the plenary a resolution on the creation of a possible committee to monitor the implementation of the PDP and public funds of the Portugal 2030 program, as well as a resolution on the formation of a working group to review subsidies. mobility of the Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira.

On the government side, there will be a debate on the 20th on proposed legislation to double the IRS deduction from 0.5% to 1% and change the local posting regime.

Today’s leaders’ conference asked about the ongoing debate with the topic to be specified by Livre (June 26), potential agendas for the PS (July 3) and Chegi (July 4), and a question for the Bloc of the Left government. (June 28)