The proposal voted on in general, specialty and overall final, was voted against by Chega, BE and PCP, the Liberal Initiative abstained and the other parties voted in favour, with a request from the PSD asking for exemption from final drafting (which allows to speed up the process) was unanimously approved.
At issue is a proposed law that aims to transpose into national legislation the creation of a regime that guarantees a minimum global level of taxation for groups of multinational companies and large national groups in the European Union (EU) - the Pillar Two Directive.
Profits of large multinationals and national groups or companies with a combined annual turnover of at least 750 million euros will be taxed at a minimum effective tax rate that cannot be less than 15%.
According to the Secretary of State for Finance, the first declaratory and payment obligation is in 2026 by reference to the year 2024.
Seriously why are the articles on here written so oddly. It makes it difficult to follow. "At issue here" nobody speaks like that.
By Darren Johnstone from Porto on 19 Oct 2024, 18:12
Only 15% taxarion is not socially moral. It should be at least parallel to VAT which is at 23%.
By Diogo F. from Lisbon on 19 Oct 2024, 22:33
@Diogo. This is an international OECD initiative that over 140 countries have committed to with the objective of putting all countries on a level playing field when attracting Multi-National Corporations to operate in their country. Ireland is the european headquarters of Apple, Google, LinkedIn, PayPal, etc.... due to the fact that they have a very favourable Tax regime for multi-nationals... In doing so, they employ thousand of Irish to work at these headquarters and pay them well... if only Portugal would do the same so as to attracted multi-nationals to the country and therefore bring wealth and prosperity to Portugal. It is ridiculous to encourage even higher taxes on Multi-nationals corporations in Portugal... unless of course, you want Portugal to continue to be POOR!
By Eliot from Lisbon on 21 Oct 2024, 11:15