Saturday, October 4, 2014

PSD / CDS speaks in two voices on the descent of the IRS – Reuters

PSD / CDS speaks in two voices on the descent of the IRS – Reuters

                 


                         
                     


                         

                 

 
                         

On the eve of presentation of the State Budget, the coalition government begins to speak in two voices, this time because of the surcharge IRS. The CDS has increased the pressure to relieve the tax burden on families while the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance show little opening to do so.


                     


                         The contrast between the two positions in the coalition became clear, once again this Friday. Passos Coelho said he “doubts” that there is “great space” to download the IRS in 2015 Speaking to journalists, in a tone which showed some irritation, the Prime Minister left a message to the IRS reform commission, which advocates a phased reduction of that tax. “The commission did not need to make this recommendation to the extent that the Government itself has long since had said, as the economic and financial conditions allow, all extraordinary measures tend to be removed,” he said. The final proposal from the commission, which was delivered to the Government this week, coincides in many of the measures advocated by CDS in reforming the IRS.

As has happened in recent weeks, the words of the Prime Minister were to contrast with those of Paulo Portas hours later. The Deputy Prime Minister does not give the file as closed and reiterated their willingness to reach a compromise on tax relief for families. “Fiscal restraint is important for the economy and for the middle class and to give a sense of reward for effort Portuguese”, said since early Saturday, the end of the Algarve Business Forum, which brought together a hundred and fifty entrepreneurs in Vilamoura.

Ports used a cautious tone, but insistent. The same insistence that, in recent days, the CDS has placed “fiscal restraint” in IRS media agenda. Incidentally, this was the theme chosen by the party to the policy statement in Parliament this week. The deputy and spokesman CDS, Philip Lobo d’Avila, re-emphasized the transitional nature of measures such as cuts in pensions and salaries as well as the surcharge that “as the name implies is itself exceptional.” In the rhetorics of centrists is the registration of a tax revenue above the estimated and a better economy.

The pressure of CDS to download the IRS has collided with the limited availability of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance to abdicate this recipe. That even Maria Luís Albuquerque realized directly deputies of the majority, when he received last week to talk about the green tax reform, which translates into tax measures on the environment. When we found the PUBLIC, Finance Minister sniffed the other low taxes, although the proposals contained in the reform of green taxation allow raise 160 million euros. A considerable amount given that each percentage point surcharge IRS worth 220 million euros. Many members of the majority are not even supporters of green taxes, but consider that if allowed alleviate the IRS, would be a necessary evil for a greater good.

Neither CDS nor PSD forget that the next state budget is the last before the parliamentary elections. The Prime Minister says refusing to cede eleitoralismos, but between the social democrats there are also those who ask questions about the consequences for the party if the Government does not get to give good news. The next two weeks will be decisive to understand the game balances between the two coalition parties.


 
                     
                 

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