Summer CEmp 2022: In Portugal it is easy to create companies, but it is difficult to develop them. Tax reform needed
The weight of taxation on work and the difficulty of making Portugal and the flight of companies companies were represented by the company companies in themes of the fifth edition of the so-called Summer CE, promoted by the European Commission (EC, and in 2022 in the fifth edition.
If the concern with the difficulty in making it grow and the high tax burden in one of the many debates held at Summer CEmp 2022, another was the digital transition and climate change, with the president of the Confederação da Cima da table A Indústria Portuguesa (CIP ) says how its contribution is given, giving as an example a reduction in consumption without being asked, and how proposals that have already been made to the government for the construction of seawater plants. And there are three core projects prepared to carry out,
Underlining the urgency of acting in the decarbonization of the economy and in the sustainability of the environment, Bernardo Ivo Cruz, Secretary of State for Internationalization, and one of the speakers at the summer school, taking place in Ribeira Grande, in São Miguel, emphasizes that the government is do research work to find saving solutions, an increasingly scarce and fundamental asset, namely to absorb 80% of the water from the water almost in Portugal.
The State Department for Internationalization and more visits with the Environment Department, have projects for the optimization and recovery of water, to study how best practices that have been the case in Australia have been the most relevant.
“In Israel the same drop of water is used four times”, he exemplifies. The objective is to carry out similar projects in and even make partnerships, products in Portugal, in instructions to the Express.
The cross-cutting proposals and difficulties in investing in Portugal prompted several questions from the audience, made up of 40 young people invited to the summer school, where the European project was the main topic of conversations and debates. Bernardo Ivo Cruz Executive that there is a lot of work to be done, and that he is committed to “simplifying and reducing bureaucracy”, but the government official refrained from making comments on the taxation of companies and work.
“On the State side, we are trying to simplify. We are investing in we are not trying to simplify e-government. Working so that the processes are fast, and to end all that is duplication. We want to simplify and make the relationship with the central administration as cheap as possible”, he stressed.
Giving the audience the right, António Saraiva stated that “Portugal is a country where it’s easy to create a company on the spot, but from there it’s all difficult…”. The president of the CIP had already put a tax reform as one of the possible reforms in the country, and one that also includes administrative reform and justice reform.
“If there’s a fight we’ve been fighting, budget by budget, it’s tax reduction, even without success”, said the president of the CIP. He admitted, however, the Confederation, however, accreditation that may be the separation of the state spills, headquarters of IRC. “It would be a stimulus to entrepreneurs”, he underlined.