The Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party, Pedro Nuno Santos, outlined the party’s red lines this Sunday to make next year’s state budget (OE) viable. If the proposals to lower the IRC and IRS, which are in parliament, are approved by Chega and the Liberal Initiative, it is with these parties that the government should seek an understanding, not with the Socialists, he said.
“The PS will never make a viable budget that includes or presupposes the IRS and IRC regimes that were presented to the Assembly of the Republic,” warned Pedro Nuno Santos at the closing of the Socialist Academy in Tomar. According to the PS leader, these proposals imply tax regimes that are “profoundly unfair, inefficient and unjustifiable from a budgetary point of view.”
However, the first condition that Pedro Nuno Santos has set for sitting down at the negotiating table with the government is to receive information on the state of the public accounts, which he said he requested from the Prime Minister a month ago, because without this data, you understand, “it is impossible to seriously evaluate the budget proposal.”
If the three conditions he outlined are met – disapproval of the IRS and IRC regimes proposed by the executive and the provision of information on public accounts – the Socialist leader guarantees that the conditions will then be met for his party to submit proposals to parliament. A government that can be “transformed into the best public budget in the country,” he concluded.
Author: Joao Maltes
Source: CM Jornal
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