The deputy prime minister and leader of the CDS Paulo Portas has materialized his idea of ”fiscal restraint”: reduce IRS surcharge by one percentage point to 2.5% and has come up with the scheme of green taxation. These are two of the proposals put on the table the conversations we’ve had with the Prime Minister in the preparation of the State Budget (OE) for 2015, found the PUBLIC.
The tax is the most sensitive in the PSD / CDS. Doors – and other leaders of CDS – have advocated the need to give a “sign” to taxpayers and particularly to the middle class while Passos Coelho and Maria Luís Albuquerque have been more prudent in speech. This signal would decrease by one percentage point from the current 3.5% of the outstanding surcharge IRS. One way to offset the loss of revenue generated by this tax cut would have to proceed with the scheme of green taxation, a package of measures in the environmental area.
The measures are part this package are yet to be announced, but depart from recommendations made by the working group for green taxation, which proposed, for example, the application of carbon taxes, plastic bags and airline tickets.
But within government there are those who remember that the tax revenue that results from the IRS is more direct and predictable as the result of the system of green taxation is more uncertain because it focuses on consumption.
While promoting the descent of surcharge the IRS, there are other proposals that the CDS is playing and listed in the tax reform that commission’s final report. It is the case of the creation of the family quotient, one of the oldest flags of the centrist and that would capitalize as a measure to protect the family. Or revision of deductions from taxable income, moving to a single deduction and the creation of social education vouchers for children up to 25 years.
At this time, there are several variables that are on the table in preparation of the 2015 Budget for the reduction of one percentage point surcharge amounts to a loss of revenue of 200 million euros, while the result of the package of green taxation amounts to approximately EUR 180 million. The proposal must be enclosed in a Council of Ministers Extraordinary already on Saturday after the OE have already been discussed yesterday at the weekly meeting of the Government.
The measures relating to the IRS, including the surcharge (should it be amended) shall include the proposed tax reform that the Government will present before delivering the Budget for the next year. Will be two separate diplomas, as happened in 2014 in relation to the reform of the IRC. with Peter Chrysostom
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