Maria Luís Albuquerque accuses government of always making excuses – Daily News – Lisbon

The government said on Thursday that the PSD / CDS-PP executive left a hole in tax revenues of 800 million euros

The former finance minister Maria Luís Albuquerque accused on Friday the government to always make excuses, defending on the hole in tax revenue that the executive assigned to you, that tax policy is public and transparent.

“I can not but deeply regret it starts to become a habit, for everything the government has to do, get an excuse what comes back,” said Maria Luís Albuquerque in parliament, over the hole in tax revenues of EUR 800 million which on Thursday the government said there.

The current deputy PSD argued that “if there was a macroeconomic scenario [PS], which so often been said that it contained all the information and all the forecasts, “disregard” fiscal policy that is public and what is known can only be a sign of incompetence. “

” Besides seek delay effects for 2016 would be at least strange given that we won the elections and had a legitimate expectation to govern, “he said in a statement that did not answer reporters’ questions.

Maria Luís Albuquerque began stating that, despite not knowing exactly what the socialist executive relates, “fiscal policy is completely transparent” adopted in parliament and “knowledge of all”, and that this always happen that way. “These measures and these effects are, in principle, known,” he said.

On Thursday, the government ran in a statement that in 2015 revenue anticipation measures were taken and postponement costs by the PSD / CDS-PP Executive, leaving a hole in tax revenues of EUR 800 million in 2016.

“For the benefit of the budget execution in 2015, policies were adopted that anticipated tax revenues and other who deferred to 2016 fiscal costs. On the whole, the lagged effects result in a net inflow of tax revenue of about minus EUR 800 million in 2016, “the statement said in government.

The document was distributed to journalists at the briefing following the Council of Ministers and does not explain however that the decisions that generate this hole, or what impact it has on the bills this year.