The statement was made by the president of Chega during a debateon Wednesday, in the Assembly of the Republic. Does it correspond to the truth? SIC Verifies.
In last Wednesday’s plenary session, in the Assembly of the Republic, the president of Chega, André Ventura, accused the PCP of frequently vote against tax reductions, such as IRS and IRC.
“A lower IRS, lower IRC, tolls, diesel, fuels, IUC, IMI. Everything, everything, everything this party presented, everything these parties presented and everything the PCP made impossible”, stated Ventura.
Will it really be like that?
We focus our analysis on taxes, namely, the Personal Income Tax (IRS), o Corporate Income Tax (IRC), the Single Circulation Tax (IUC) and the Municipal Property Tax (IMI).
With regard to IUC, andm February o of a Government proposal so that the ISSQN will no longer be paid in the month of registration and will have a fixed date, also allowing installments. However, on the same day, the communists voted against a bill presented by the Liberal Initiative to not apply the IUC to immobilized vehicles with temporarily canceled registration.
About housing, with legislative authorizations – one with tax relief measuresal to encourage the supply of housing and other changes to licensing, urbanization and urban rehabilitation – received rejection from the Communist Party.
Going back to June 2024, when Parliament approved the Government’s proposal for exemption from Municipal Tax on Onerous Property Transfers (IMT) and Stamp Tax (IS) on the purchase of the first home for young people up to the age of 35, the .
The PCP also continues to defend the maintenance of IMI exemption for political parties and other entitiess (such as the IPSS or the Catholic Church), although it does so with a specific justification based on the nature of the institutions and not on their wealth.
Still, At the municipal level, the PCP has been favorable maintaining the minimum IMI rateas happened in December last year, at the Lisbon City Council – o PCP voted in favor, alongside the coalition By ti Lisboa, from PS e… from Chega – and in Porto, in October 2024.
Iit matters yet mention that, in November last year, within the scope of the discussion of the State Budget for 2026, the communists presented a with emphasis on the restoration of the IRPJ rate to 21% and the progressiveness of the IRPJ; the update of the specific IRS deduction to 5,424 euros and the creation of the 10th bracket; a 6% VAT rate for all food, electricity, natural gas, bottled gas and telecommunications; and the elimination of the payment of VAT on the Tax on Petroleum and Energy Products (ISP).
SIC verifies that it is…
It is true that the PCP voted against the IRS, IRC and IUC reductions proposed by the Government and the right. However, the party has presented its own proposals for reducing taxes (as in VAT on energy and food) and voted in favor of maintaining IMI at municipal level, which contradicts the idea of a total and systematic unfeasibility defended by Ventura.
