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Real estate worth more than 2 million pay more IMI, plastic bags do not cost more expensive, a new rate of civil protection has been affected and also led to ban pigeon shooting
(This article has been updated throughout the day with the most relevant budget votes, which are taking place at the Assembly of the Republic.)
The third day of the vote on the state budget for 2019 in the specialty began with the approval of a proposal of the left parties for the creation of a new stage in the l & # 39; 39, additional IMI. The morning was marked by the vote on VAT on the bullfights, which corresponds to a PS party in half – 43 deputies voted in favor of the socialist proposal, which provided that the VAT would fall to 6%; 40 others voted against. The debate and the vote in the specialty are already finished and lasted about 33 hours, devoted to the budget. The closing debate and the final final vote on Thursday will have been missed.
The Observer summarizes in this article the main novelties of this third and final day of voting in the specialty which, between Monday and Tuesday, already has more than 17 hours of voting.
Parliament approved the creation of a new stage in the additional IMI. The PS, the Left Bloc and the PCP voted in favor of communist and blocist proposals that foresaw the introduction of a fourth step. Assets with a taxable value of more than two million euros will therefore pay a rate of 1.5% of additional IMI.
Until now, there were only three categories: the first, which covered assets valued between zero and 600,000 euros, on which there is no additional commission; or second not included assets with a value of between € 600,000 and € 1 million, or 0.5%; the third concerns all real estate more than a million euros at a rate of 1%. In practice, the first two remain unchanged and the third will cover assets valued between one million and two million, maintaining the rate of 1%. In addition, the creation of a fourth step above 2 million euros, the rate of which is set at 1.5%.
This was a decision leftist parties had been advocating since the first state budget negotiations for 2019. It was not part of the first generally voted version, but is now entering the document through the proposed amendments.
It has been approved the extension of the support to the victims of the fires of 2017 to the victims of the fires of last summer in the counties of Monchique, Silves, Portimão and Odemira. Only the PS voted against this proposal for amendment to the left bloc's OE that considers it "urgent to help all affected victims of these counties, to recover the housing, equipment and other aids, and to restore productive potentialities ".
Another of the PAN's victories in the state budget proposal for 2019 that was based on the specialty. Like the end of the VAT exemption for bullfighters and the 6% change, it is now the turn of the parties – PSD, CDS and PCP – to s' align to conclude the agreement reached between the PAN and the government to increase the price of lightweight plastic bags, the same bought in supermarkets to make purchases, for example.
Plastic bags should increase from 8 to 12 cents. Including VAT, plastic bags cost 10 cents and would increase to 15 cents with the budget standard. But this increase will not happen anymore.
The DSP and the CDS successfully lifted the ban on shooting captive birds, necessarily referring to captive-bred birds. The measure was part of the government's proposal, following an agreement with the People-Animal-Nature (NAP) party including other measures such as the removal of the tax exemption of the bullfighters or the increase in the price of plastic bags.
The end of the flying shot – commonly known as pigeon shooting – was marked by the PSD, CDS and PCP, with PS votes against and the left Bloc.
Despite the resolutions adopted against the increase decided in 2016 by the government and the political statements of the various parties asking the government to honor the promise to eliminate it, this addition to the rates of 39, taxation will remain.
The government abolished last Friday, by order, the additional tax on gasoline, but maintained that of diesel. Now, during the budget vote, the proposal had to be reinstated in the law and it was the PS, the PCP and the Bloc on the left that prevented this additional amount from being reduced, in the remaining part, which is diesel.
Until now, the Treasury does not have detailed data to monitor taxpayers who have regularized their assets under these amnesties. With the approval of this proposal, the Bank of Portugal and the banks will have to transmit to the tax authorities the declarations of taxpayers who have joined these RERTs.
The visas will also have, after being inspected by the tax authorities and claimed to have adhered to one of these schemes, provide the tax authorities with detailed information on the operations concerned, the previous operations and the entities that assisted them in these operations. The Bloc claimed to have been warned by the Treasury that the authorities had neither the capacity nor the information to know whether they were investigating a fact before or after these amnesties, since visas were invoked whenever they had adhered to this scheme.
From now on, the Treasury will be able to distinguish the transactions covered by these amnesties and those that are left behind and to have more information about these taxpayers whenever they are the object of An investigation.
The PS did not want to, but the proposal of the left block had support for the PSD and the left block. Thus, in the first half of next year, Banco de Portugal will have to provide information to the tax administration on transfers to entities enjoying more favorable preferential tax regimes.
This information should be detailed, with the number and value of the transferring entity, aggregated by destination and the reason for each transfer.
The proposal was only one clarification, similar to another already made for long contributory careers. The PCP and SP proposals were jointly approved. Thus, public slaughterhouse workers in the autonomous region of the Azores who receive their pension through the intermediary of Caixa Geral de Aposentações will also be able to retire at the age of 55 without any penalty, in the same way . of what has already happened with workers who have been reformed through social security.
The government introduced a series of tax benefits in the state budget proposal for 2019 to encourage young people to choose continental universities. These benefits include a 10 percentage point increase in the IRS deduction of education expenses, as well as an increase in the amount of tax recoverable up to 1,000 euros.
With the approval of the PSD and PS proposals, which are identical, this tax benefit will apply to all those who choose to study in the universities and polytechnic schools of the autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira.
Another benefit created in the proposed budget for students opting for continental universities is the increase in the potential deductible value of real estate rentals. The law provides that the deduction can reach a maximum of 502 euros per year, but for these students, the amount will be increased to 1000 euros, almost double.
The proposal approved in Parliament on Wednesday requires anyone wishing to benefit from this scheme – for a maximum of three years – to report to the tax authorities the number of people in the household who study in the universities of the interior and even if they are provided proof of income showing that there has been a change of permanent residence in an inland territory.
The Left Bloc, PCP, PSD and CDS have isolated the PS and have claimed the creation of the Civil Protection Fees, at the head of another alternative coalition. The Constitutional Court had already vetoed the idea of creating this rate when three municipalities – Lisbon, Gaia and Setúbal – tried to implement it at the local level. The government wanted to approve it at the national level and introduced it into the state budget for 2019, but the parliament prevented the proposal from going forward.
The PSD, the Esquerda Block and the CDS-PP have tabled proposals for amendments aimed at eliminating the creation of this fee. The PCP announced that it would join the vote, creating the majority needed to pull the hand brake and prevent the proposal from moving forward. It is recalled that this measure was adopted by the Municipality of Lisbon when António Costa was president of autarky and was finally declared unconstitutional by the TC.
Although this is an unusual combination of strengths, this result is not a surprise. At the beginning of November, the observer had already anticipated this vote when it appeared that there was a parliamentary majority that was unfavorable to the progress of this measure.
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