Cristóvão Norte, president of the PSD Algarve, is against the solution presented by the Government – the reinforcement of the Autovoucher – to “relieve” the Portuguese from the rise in fuel prices and defends the lowering of the ISP (Tax on Petroleum Products).
The deputy also considers that the Autovoucher «is not known to most citizens - many of whom do not even know how to use it -, and those who have registered have benefited from a "tax discount" that is lower than the increase in taxes resulting from the of fuel prices'.
Cristóvão Norte, in a public note, says that “if it is an undeniable fact that the Government can do nothing to stop the increase in the cost of crude oil and its impact on the final price, it is no less true that it can avoid putting an even greater burden on the Portuguese in the which taxes on fuel are concerned'.
The leader of the Algarve Social Democrats explains that, «for every cent that the price of fuel goes up, VAT is charged 0,23 cents, which, in this case, for example with regard to diesel - fuel supplied at around two thirds of vehicles circulating in Portugal – means that with the hike that will take place on Monday, the State will collect another 2,7 cents per liter».
Cristóvão Norte accuses the Government of, “through successive expedients”, collecting “revenue that he says he does not want, but which he never returns and has seen brutal increases in tax revenue at the expense of citizens desperate with the price of fuel. In a word, the higher the price, the greater the tax collection, and in this the Government is not begged».
In this case, accuses the leader of the PSD Algarve, «it is still disgusting that this increase in revenue has as a proximate cause the shocking invasion of Ukraine by Russia».
For the deputy, «if the Government wants, as it says, not to benefit from this tragedy and, at the same time, spare the Portuguese from such a delicate situation that these successive increases represent, it has the possibility of reviewing the tax burden, namely lowering the ISP, so that the upward price movements of the last few months do not put the Portuguese in a worse situation than they are already”.
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