The deputy general secretary of the PS, José Luís Carneiro, considered this Saturday that the Government's State Budget proposal for 2021 will be the “best” since 2015, despite the country living in “very demanding” circumstances caused by the AIDS pandemic. Covid-19.
For José Luís Carneiro, who spoke to the Lusa agency in Serra do Buçaco, in the district of Aveiro, this is a proposal that focuses on “public investment, the qualification of living conditions, maintenance and the consolidation of family income” .
“It is, once again, a Budget that consolidates all the measures that have been undertaken since 2015 and that takes steps forward in relation to fundamental values”, he stressed.
The socialist leader said that the document brings “new contributions to the valorization of work and the relevant functions of workers”, and establishes “well the priorities” of public investment, with reinforcement of the resources of the National Health Service, of the national education system, from basic to secondary to higher education, and for the qualification of the national scientific system.
"It is a State Budget that values those that are vital functions of the State, namely in guaranteeing housing in conditions of dignity, investment in transport and mobility, as well as in the conditions of resources of families and workers", he stressed.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the PS also highlighted the fact that the State Budget proposal for 2021 prepares “simultaneously the articulation with the multiannual financial framework and the articulation with the country's recovery and resilience plan”.
“It is, therefore, the best State Budget we have had since 2015, even though we live in very demanding pandemic circumstances”, said José Luís Carneiro, who expressed the expectation of the proposal to be delivered on Monday, in the Assembly of the Republic.
Asked to comment on the news of the weekly Expresso, which reports a reduction in the withholding tax rate for all workers in 2021, the socialist leader circumvented the issue, referring that “the known tax bets not only promote consolidation and even income gains for workers and the middle classes, as they have another fiscal dimension ”.
In this fiscal dimension, the deputy general secretary of the PS highlighted the measure that provides for the return to consumers of part of the VAT of expenses incurred in the sectors of catering and tourism, which are “especially affected” by the pandemic crisis.
Mayors, deputies, leaders of the PS today planted 400 trees in the forest of Buçaco, in the municipality of Mealhada, fulfilling an environmental commitment made during the election campaign for the 2019 legislative elections to contribute to the reduction of the carbon footprint during the campaign.
The action, which involved the planting of species selected by the Mata do Buçaco Foundation, was attended by the Deputy Secretary-General of the PS, José Luís Carneiro, and the Secretary of State for Nature Conservation, Forests and Spatial Planning, João Catarino.
The deputy general secretary of the PS, José Luís Carneiro, considered this Saturday that the Government's State Budget proposal for 2021 will be the “best” since 2015, despite the country living in “very demanding” circumstances caused by the AIDS pandemic. Covid-19.
For José Luís Carneiro, who spoke to the Lusa agency in Serra do Buçaco, in the district of Aveiro, this is a proposal that focuses on “public investment, the qualification of living conditions, maintenance and the consolidation of family income” .
“It is, once again, a Budget that consolidates all the measures that have been undertaken since 2015 and that takes steps forward in relation to fundamental values”, he stressed.
The socialist leader said that the document brings “new contributions to the valorization of work and the relevant functions of workers”, and establishes “well the priorities” of public investment, with reinforcement of the resources of the National Health Service, of the national education system, from basic to secondary to higher education, and for the qualification of the national scientific system.
"It is a State Budget that values those that are vital functions of the State, namely in guaranteeing housing in conditions of dignity, investment in transport and mobility, as well as in the conditions of resources of families and workers", he stressed.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the PS also highlighted the fact that the State Budget proposal for 2021 prepares “simultaneously the articulation with the multiannual financial framework and the articulation with the country's recovery and resilience plan”.
“It is, therefore, the best State Budget we have had since 2015, even though we live in very demanding pandemic circumstances”, said José Luís Carneiro, who expressed the expectation of the proposal to be delivered on Monday, in the Assembly of the Republic.
Asked to comment on the news of the weekly Expresso, which reports a reduction in the withholding tax rate for all workers in 2021, the socialist leader circumvented the issue, referring that “the known tax bets not only promote consolidation and even income gains for workers and the middle classes, as they have another fiscal dimension ”.
In this fiscal dimension, the deputy general secretary of the PS highlighted the measure that provides for the return to consumers of part of the VAT of expenses incurred in the sectors of catering and tourism, which are “especially affected” by the pandemic crisis.
Mayors, deputies, leaders of the PS today planted 400 trees in the forest of Buçaco, in the municipality of Mealhada, fulfilling an environmental commitment made during the election campaign for the 2019 legislative elections to contribute to the reduction of the carbon footprint during the campaign.
The action, which involved the planting of species selected by the Mata do Buçaco Foundation, was attended by the Deputy Secretary-General of the PS, José Luís Carneiro, and the Secretary of State for Nature Conservation, Forests and Spatial Planning, João Catarino.