The senior coalition partner had called a press conference to highlight the impact of the measures that Costa termed "a family and birth friendly fiscal reform and that the retention at source tables now published do clearly demonstrate."


"Over a million families will see they have more earnings available at the end of each month. 120,000 families will no longer have to pay any IRS," said the spokesperson in what he maintained was “undoubtedly the broadest reform of the IRS system in the last 26 years".


Costa continued by pointing to the concern shown in the reform to protect households with dependents, whether minors or elderly relatives, and on lower incomes.