In the fact that PSD president, Luís Montenegro explained that the government, by changing retention rates at source, “decided to be more transparent” and “fairer with taxpayers.” Still on the subject, he took the opportunity to respond to PS criticism, accusing the main opponent to criticize a measure that his own viable in the state budget.
PSD President Luís Montenegro said on Sunday that the absence or reduction of IRS reimbursement is “for a good reason”, defending retention of the tax closest to what is being charged.
“There are Portuguese and Portuguese who today have a reality that is not the best, it is true. Refund is not exactly the same as it was before, but we need to say seriously as it is for a good reason,” said Luís Montenegro, who was speaking at the end of the AD (PSD/CDS-PP) list of list heads in Curia, Anadia municipality.
In his intervention, the current Prime Minister argued that he will always try “that the retention of the work on labor income [IRS] They are as close as possible to the tax that is expected to be charged “when the refund.
According to Luís Montenegro, the reduction of retention rates explain that there are Portuguese today who, after the delivery of the IRS statement, are faced with a reduction or absence of the reimbursement that would be expected.
For the PSD president, the Government, in changing retention rates at source, “decided to be more transparent and decided to be fairer with taxpayers”.
“What is not fair is that we, as a rule, have more than what we will charge, and that will inhibit the person throughout the year of having the performance that truly is their own,” he said.
Already the previous situation, he said, “taxpayers to fund and lend money to the state that is theirs,” noting that even if some say this could be considered a savings, “is a forced savings.”
“People have the right to have their income and their money. The policy of this government is this. (…) If what the PS means when it calls this trick will retain more money to Portuguese taxpayers than the one who then intends to charge at the end of the year, then have the courage to say to Portuguese taxpayers and say, ‘We’ll increase the IRS source retention tables.
Before, Luís Montenegro had already accused PS Secretary-General Pedro Nuno Santos of not being consistent by claiming that that party had defended a low IRS and retention rates, accusing the socialists of defending “one thing and its opposite”.
In the past, Pedro Nuno Santos accused Luís Montenegro from a fiscal with tricks.
Earlier this month, he stated that the government’s trick was to have “changed the source retention table to decrease the tax withholding”, but, the month of delivery of IRS, “many Portuguese who were used to receiving IRS” arrived to pay or not received anything.
O in 2025 due to changes in source retention last year, having a positive impact on tax revenue.
