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The Extraordinary Secretary for Tax Reform outlined the details of the regulation of Tax Reform, Justice Zanin suspended sections of the law that extended the payroll tax exemption, and Wednesday, May 1, is a holiday
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 26 Apr 2024

Yesterday, the Extraordinary Secretary for Tax Reform, Bernardo Appy, gave a long interview to explain the details of the bill submitted by the government to the National Congress on the regulation of Tax Reform. In other news, Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Cristiano Zanin responded to the ...

The government submitted the bills on Tax Reform regulation, Congress postponed the analysis of presidential vetoes, and the AGU filed a lawsuit in the STF against the payroll tax relief bill
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 25 Apr 2024

Yesterday, the government submitted a bill to the National Congress that establishes the Tax on Goods and Services—the IBS, whose responsibility is shared between the states, municipalities, and the Federal District; and the Social Contribution on Goods and Services—the CBS, whose responsibility ...

The government is expected to submit the bills on Tax Reform regulation today, and Congress will analyze presidential vetoes today
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 24 Apr 2024

Today, the government will likely submit a bill to the National Congress with the regulation of Tax Reform. According to the Extraordinary Secretary of the Ministry of Finance for Tax Reform, Bernard Appy, the regulation of tax reform will be made in two complementary bills and an ordinary bill. ...

The FPE will hold a meeting with Bernard Appy on Tax Reform, the House may vote on the Perse bill today, and the Camex may discuss a surcharge on imported steel
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 23 Apr 2024

Today, the Parliamentary Entrepreneurship Front (FPE) will hold a meeting with the Extraordinary Secretary of Tax Reform, Bernard Appy, for a debate on the proposals for Complementary Laws on Tax Reform. The House may vote on the bill that provides for the gradual end of the Emergency Program for...

The Lula government's "outdated software" and other weekly topics
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 22 Apr 2024

The government announced a measure focused on credit and is expected to submit the Tax Reform regulations to Congress. The House may vote on a new Perse. Congress analyzes presidential vetoes. This week's Talking Points: * The Lula government's "outdated software".  * A feasibl...

Lula launches the Believe Credit Program, the government should finally submit the bills that regulate Tax Reform, and the House may vote on the bill on the Perse program
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 22 Apr 2024

President Lula launches the new government program for the credit area today, the Believe Program (Programa Acredite). There will be lines of credit for individual microentrepreneurs and microenterprises. The government should finally submit the bills that regulate Tax Reform to the National Cong...

Tension between the government and Congress increases, the government is expected to submit the bills on Tax Reform regulation next week, and Congress should analyze presidential vetoes next week
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 19 Apr 2024

This week was tumultuous from a political point of view. The new conflicts between the government and Congress are worrisome. In the House, the tension is between the president of the House, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), and the Minister of the Institutional Relations Secretariat, Alexandre Padilha. In ot...

The Senate approved the update to the Income Tax exemption range, Minister Haddad called for an international tax on the rich, and the São Paulo City Council approved the bill that privatizes Sabesp
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 18 Apr 2024

Yesterday the Senate approved, in a symbolic vote, the Executive Office’s bill that expands the Income Tax exemption range to a monthly income of up to two minimum wages (R$2,824). In the United States, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said that the government will propose a declaration on intern...

The disagreements between Lira and the government have increased, the session of Congress to review presidential vetoes was postponed to next week, and the vote on the privatization of Sabesp should take place today
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 17 Apr 2024

The disagreements between Arthur Lira (PP-AL) and the government have increased. Yesterday, the government dismissed Wilson César de Lira Santos, Lira's cousin, from the position of Regional Superintendent of Incra in Alagoas. Last week, Lira called the Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexan...

The government submitted the Budget guidelines bill, the regulation of Tax Reform has been postponed to April 22, and Pacheco said the complementary law on state debt will be submitted this month
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 16 Apr 2024

The government sent the Budget guidelines bill to the National Congress yesterday, which includes the parameters of the 2025 Federal Budget. The fiscal target for next year was reduced from 0.5% to 0% of GDP. Yesterday, the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, confirmed that the regulation of Ta...

Difficulties in the legislature and other weekly topics
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 15 Apr 2024

The government submits the Budget Guidelines Bill and proposals for regulating Tax Reform to Congress. Negotiations continue around payroll tax relief for companies and municipalities, in addition to Perse (the events sector program). Rodrigo Pacheco meets with governors to discuss state debt. ...

Pacheco meets with governors to discuss state debt, the government is considering changing the fiscal target for 2025, and the House will continue to analyze important bills this week
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 15 Apr 2024

Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco and the governors who are requesting the restructuring of their debts with the federal government will discuss the general lines of a complementary bill to regularize state debt. The fiscal target for this year is 0% of GDP. For 2025, the government had defined a ...

The government withdrew the urgent status of the payroll tax bills and the app drivers bill, the payroll tax bills should be negotiated next week, and the government may also announce three important measures next week
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 12 Apr 2024

Faced with resistance from the National Congress, the government was forced to withdraw the request for constitutional urgent status for the payroll tax reinstatement bills and the bill dealing with app drivers. Next week, the bills on payroll tax relief, Perse (the program aimed at the events se...

Lula meets with ministers to discuss a package of measures on credit, the government announced the new Voa Brasil program, and the FPE presents five bills on Tax Reform regulations
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 11 Apr 2024

This morning, President Lula meets with Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce, and Services Geraldo Alckmin, among others, to discuss a package of measures on credit, more specifically, microcredit and credit for microenterprises. On social media, the Minister of Ports an...

The House approved urgent status for the Perse and payroll tax bills, the Joint Committee on the payroll tax MP is expected to be installed today, and Lira said that the working group on the Fake News bill should be installed
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 10 Apr 2024

The House approved urgent status for the bills on the Emergency Program for the Resumption of the Events Sector (Perse) and the payroll tax exemption for small municipalities. The merits of the two proposals will be analyzed next week. Today, the Joint Committee on the provisional measure (MP) th...