The minority governing Socialist Party’s top priority in 2009 will be to help retain jobs and create new ones, the party’s parliamentary group leader Ildiko Lendvai told MTI in a statement on Sunday.
Socialist MPs will also seek ways to reduce employment-related contributions, Lendvai said. As it is not possible to reduce central revenues at a time of crisis, taxes cannot be cut on the whole but they can be rearranged to allow for lower duties and contributions on wages. “This could be covered from (higher) taxes on properties and consumer goods,” Lendvai said in the document, but added that the changes should not impact people with modest incomes.
“The most important social criterion of mitigating the effects of the crisis is that measures should not put those with no reserves into a hopeless situation,” she said.