Lisbon 09 out (Lusa) – The Minister of Agriculture and Sea Assumption Crests, today admitted to IRS changes in forest, suitable to long production runs producers, without clarifying whether the measure will be included in the State Budget for in 2015.
The minister recalled that last year, “a very significant change” was made regarding IRC and hopes to also realize that these changes “have to do with long production cycles in the area of forest “, another type of taxes.
Assumption Crests, who was speaking to Lusa on the sidelines of the Third Congress of the Association of Forest Industries Base, said that the changes that were contemplated in IRC and they were a” CLAIM industry “may well be replicated in the IRS.
” Often we are not talking of companies, we are talking about individual producers who have a business and that is what they pay IRS. Let’s look at regarding IRS have the same kind of approach, “he admitted.
The goal is to make changes” within the IRS’s own mechanisms “that have the same effect of the measures adopted for the IRC, distributing” over the years, what investments are made in forest area and, of course, only have the past return long. “
Assumption Ridges added that” between planting and then will cut many years, sometimes decades and it is important that the tax system has this understanding and fits to these cycles. “
The minister did not clarify, however, whether the measure will already covered in the next State Budget:” The matter is be studied. I believe it is possible to achieve the same goals, we are working on it. “
Another novelty announced for short, is the creation of a platform for monitoring the relationship in inspired by the model of forest PARKA chain (Platform Monitoring Relations in Agrifood Chain), which served to monitor the relationship between retailers and suppliers.
The new platform “will join the entire forest sector, from production to industry,” he said.
“We’re hitting agendas to the first meeting and the goal is, again, studying the relationships in the chain: how are the prices, how to create more value and how to make more value in production,” explained .
The official admitted receiving complaints from forest producers, due to the prices paid by the industry, but stressed that there are also complaints from the industry because there is little production “, stressing that the government wants to” turn these complaints opportunities “and improve conditions to increase raw materials and forest productivity.
One of the tools that might be created is that of multiannual contracts.
” Producers stand to gain if they are organized, if they can have stable relationships, as multi-annual contracts. It is an instrument that already exists for other areas and that may also be suitable here, “he stressed.
Asked if the forest is not weakened by the departure of Secretary of State for Forestry and Rural Development, Francisco Gomes da Silva, Asunción Ridges countered that the fact that the very ministers to work directly and protect the area’s “appreciation” for the sector.
“I have no memory of a minister directly protect forests. I believe this should be read as an appreciation of the sector and as a bet on the sector, “he said.
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