IL announced this Friday, November 7th, that it will propose, in the specialized budget discussion, the exemption from tax on capital gains on the sale of properties and insisted on reducing the IRS, through a two-tier model of 15% and 30%.
At a press conference in parliament, on the last day of the deadline for parties to submit proposals for changes to the State Budget for 2026, IL parliamentary leader, Mário Amorim Lopes, said that the party wants to “give the Portuguese the country they deserve, where everyone can live and no one is left behind”.
“For this, we have to have a national plan, it is not just a plan of the Liberal Initiative. It is time for this to have a national plan, which is to make Portugal grow. It cannot be a partisan issue, it has to be an issue for everyone”, he asked.
Mário Amorim Lopes announced that the party will insist on a “significant” reduction in the IRS through a two-rate model – 15% (income up to €22,635) and 30% (over €22,635) – with the aim of “removing the noose from the neck of Portuguese families and allowing companies to grow”.
“The current proposal from the parties that support the Government is a proposal that, for a salary of 1200 euros, reduces 2 euros per month, if we consider 14 months’ salary. Our proposal allows a reduction of 61 euros per month”, he explained, adding that it is not about “taking money” from the State, but rather “returning it to families’ pockets”.
The IL deputy also stated that the current disparity between the cost of living and salaries in Portugal “is absolutely unsustainable” and could result in the “collapse of the country” and announced measures to promote an increase in housing supply, such as the exemption, during the year 2026, from IRS taxation of income from capital gains on the sale of properties.
For the leader of the liberal bench, the payment of tax on capital gains “causes many people to postpone the decision to sell their properties and put them on the housing market”.
The IL project excludes from this exemption income obtained through the sale of a property that has already been transacted after January 1, 2025, with the exception of cases in which the transfer is made by inheritance or “exceptional circumstances”.
The party also proposes, for housing, the reduction of taxes on property income to 15% for all properties and the exemption from this taxation, for five years, on properties that have not been on the rental market in the last five years. IL also wants VAT on housing construction to be reduced to 6%.
IL will also propose an increase in sickness benefit for families who have a dependent child with an oncological illness or severe disability to help “those who really need it and those who are in a difficult situation”.
In health, the liberal bench wants SNS users waiting for surgery or specialist consultation, in cases where it is known that the public hospital will not meet the minimum response times, be referred to another hospital, whether public, private or in the social sector.
In promoting the birth rate, liberals propose recovering the family quotient for dependents and transferring social responsibility burdens, such as exercising parental rights and reconciling professional and family life, from employers to the State.
Mário Amorim Lopes also guaranteed at this press conference that his party’s proposals have a “much lower cost than the increase in public expenditure observed in recent years” under the PSD/CDS Government.
“With these two years of AD governance, the increase in public expenditure will surpass, look, the increase that occurred during the eight years of Socialist Party governance”, he highlighted.