The BE coordinator, Mariana Mortágua, classified this Thursday the 2026 State Budget (OE2026) as the “budget of fiscal inequality, in which once again we see big banks and big investment funds” start paying less taxes, “while most people suffer because they can’t even pay the rent for their house”.
During an electoral campaign action in Barcelos, the blocist leader assured that she takes “the State Budget very seriously” and explained that he likes to talk about the topic only after reading the document“very carefully” and after “analyzing the numbers”.
However, “the Government chose to bring forward the presentation of the document”, criticized BE’s only deputy, suggesting an explanation for this anticipation: “We know why he did it. The news from Spinumviva was not very favorable to the Government.”
The Minister of Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, in the presentation of OE2026, explained that the deadline for submitting the document was October 10th, but the Government anticipated it, especially because, he admitted, it is addicted to meeting deadlines.
Mariana Mortágua thus spoke of “contempt for local elections”, especially because, she criticized, “the Government decided to occupy the last days of the local campaign with a topic that has nothing to do with the local campaign – the State Budget –, knowing that the press, the political forces, the deputies would be too busy to be able to give the Budget the attention it deserves”.
“It doesn’t seem like a serious way to promote and start the discussion of the State BudgetHe ended up.
´On the topics that bother her in the document, taking into account what she saw in the presentation of OE2026, Maraiana Mortágua highlighted the tax benefits for banks.
“What shocks me This is the end of the additional solidarity for banks. The banks will benefit in this State Budget in two ways: IRC will be reduced, which is the tax that banks pay on profits, and they will stop paying the additional solidarity“, he criticized.
“There is no reason why this State Budget has to bring a tax free for banks, as is already more than expected and more than what it will bring, is that it is added to a tax free already announced for large companies and also for real estate investment funds. This is and appears to be the Budget of fiscal inequality, in which once again we see large banks, large investment funds paying less taxes, while most people suffer because they can’t even pay their house rent”, he concluded.