In Brussels, Luís Montenegro announced that the government wants to establish IRS descents between 0.4% and 0.6% at the rates of the first eight eight levels.
Luís Montenegro announcedthis Wednesday, that the government proposal provides IRS rates decreases 0.5% between the first and third levels, 0.6% between the fourth and sixth and 0.4% in the seventh and eighth.
“This decrease does not cover the ninth and last echelon, and as you have noticed what I just said, it has the protection of the first three echelons, of lower income, and has a recognition, one reinforcement of the conditions of performance and remuneration of the Portuguese middle class”, Said Luís Montenegro, in an interview with RTP.
According to the Prime Minister, the proposal will give entry “today [quarta-feira] Even in the Assembly of the Republic so that it can be discussed next week. ”
Montenegro pointed out that this will be the Third IRS Descent in governments that lead and promised to “continue to do so during the legislature”.
Last week, during the discussion of the government program, the prime minister had already announced that the IRS reduction proposal would be presented “in the next two weeks.”
The PSD/CDS-PP Executive program provides for the reduction of IRS by two billion euros by 2029, with one.