The board of Casa do Artista said today that it has still not received the IRS amount that taxpayers allocated to it last year, a “fundamental” support for its activity, calling for it to be made available “quickly”.
“On the day that the annual IRS tax return is due, we still don’t know the amount of last year’s (2022) IRS consignment,” Apoiarte – Casa do Artista said in a statement, stressing that for them, as for “so many other organizations”, this annual support “is fundamental”.
Every year, when submitting their annual personal income tax return, taxpayers can indicate an organization to which they would like 0.5% of the tax paid to be donated.
According to the law, the amount earmarked “on the basis of income declarations submitted within the legal deadline, must be transferred to the beneficiary entities by March 31 of the year following the submission of said declaration”.
The deadline for the consigned amount to reach the applicants was this Sunday.
Lusa questioned the Ministry of Finance about whether Casa do Artista is an isolated case or whether there are other entities that have not yet received the amount in question and why, but has not yet received a reply.
In a statement, the board of Casa do Artista recalls that the 0.5% IRS consignment is a mechanism that “aims to help entities in the solidarity sector, which is a way of obtaining funding to mitigate the effects of the low state contribution”.
According to the report, the average monthly fee paid by residents is 693.99 euros, plus a monthly Social Security contribution of 503.54 euros per user, giving an average cost per user of 1,787.37 euros.
“The unfavorable deviation of around 540 euros per user per month is evident,” says Casa do Artista, noting that at the root of these situations are “contributory careers marked by precariousness and low pensions, plus funding that is still insufficient for the entities to carry out their social function, leaving no one behind, with the guarantee of good practices, quality and transparency.”
Last year, there were around 4,700 applicants for consignment. This year there are more than 5,000.