After deadlock, Chamber postpones vote on payroll exemption to Wednesday

After a long deadlock and after approving the emergency regime, this Tuesday (29), the Chamber of Deputies decided to postpone the vote on the merits of the bill that deals with payroll exemption. Voting has been rescheduled for this Wednesday (30).

Initially, it was planned to vote on urgency and merit this Tuesday. However, a lack of agreement on the inclusion of city halls in the proposal made the government press for the postponement of the vote.

The original text extends until the end of 2027 the payroll exemption for 17 sectors of the economy, but an amendment approved in the Senate intends to reduce from 20% to 8% the social security contribution on the payroll of municipalities with a population of less than 142, 6 thousand.

Government supporters point out that the inclusion of municipalities in the proposal is not fair, because the number of inhabitants is not always directly related to healthy or deficient revenues.

The Minister of Finance himself, Fernando Haddad, has questioned the constitutionality of the proposal under discussion in Congress.

With the postponement of the vote on merit, the rapporteur for the PL, deputy Anyz Ortiz (Cidadania-RS) should still present this Wednesday (30) a new text in search of a political solution to the municipalities.