Government denies additional fuel revenues denounced by the opposition

"The internet service provider 's business figure has not grown by 1 billion euros. This figure does not adhere to reality, "said State Secretary for Tax Affairs António Mendes during the second day of debate in the parliamentary plenary devoted to the state budget for 2019 ( OE2019).

Confronted by the Christian Democrat Mota Soares and the Social Democrat Duarte Pacheco to "fulfill" the so-called "fiscal neutrality" of the measure to offset the reduction in revenues due to the decline in the price of oil, although Inverted, the manager points out until "It has already been released, Friday, the order that in inverse three cents the rate of ISPs of gasoline".

"We have presented in this OE a huge relief for the whole country thanks to the reduction of tariffs, very concrete measures for the energy and the electricity, and since last month, the diesel has fallen. .

Mota Soares had stated that "it is this government that promised the Portuguese that the tax would be neutral".

"In January 2016, the state collected 59 cents of tax per liter and today, in every liter of diesel, it receives 73 cents of tax." They lied to the Portuguese, who paid out a billion euros in fuel, "he added, citing a report from the Technical Unit of Budget Support (UTAO) before it was reported. # 39; interrogate about the positioning of the left wing of the PS on the subject.

Duarte Pacheco, PSD MP, also criticized the BE, the PCP and the EPI for their assertion that "they speak, they speak, but they still vote with the government to maintain this tax".