- The Council of Ministers approved the Program of 60 fiscal and economic measures.
In its meeting on July 4, the Council of Ministers approved and presented the Acelerar a Economia program – Growth, Competitiveness, Internationalization, Innovation, and Sustainability, comprising 60 fiscal and economic measures aimed at addressing 20 challenges to accelerate economic growth.
Among the 60 measures, 25 stand out, distributed across 5 vectors – scale, consolidation and capitalization; financing; entrepreneurship, innovation and talent; sustainability; clustering.
Scale, Consolidation, and Capitalization
- Gradually reduce the corporate income tax (IRC) to 15%.
- Create a VAT group regime.
- Review the fiscal deductibility regime for goodwill.
- Expand access to the participation exemption regime.
- Provide tax deductions for capital gains and dividends earned by individuals in the capitalization of companies.
Financing
- Launch the “State to Pay in 30 Days” plan.
- Extend the stamp duty exemption to centralized treasury management operations.
- Increase the eligibility of the cash accounting VAT scheme.
- Launch Tourism Bonds 2024 to diversify funding sources.
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Talent
- Strengthen the “PhDs in Companies” program.
- Place researchers and teachers in governing bodies or as shareholders of startups.
- Introduce the new talent attraction regime (IFICI+).
- Review the Fiscal Incentive System for Business Research and Development (SIFIDE II).
Sustainability
- Contribute to the definition of a reference for verifying ESG reports (in Portuguese, Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance);
- Create the PME Leader ESG award;
- Include ESG criteria in access to incentives and public contracts;
- Tourism + Sustainable Line;
- Promote support for innovation in blue biotechnology;
- Approve the National Plan for Marine Litter 2024-28.
Clusterização
- Lançar o programa para a Economia de Defesa
- Acelerar a economia circular no Comércio e Serviços;
- Lançar a Estratégia Turismo 2035;
- Concluir o Plano de Ordenamento do Espaço Marítimo Nacional;
- Indústria 2045, estratégia de reindustrialização sustentável;
- Reforçar a internacionalização da marca Portugal.
