Exemption: rapporteur accepts extension to 2027 – 08/07/2023 – Market

The rapporteur for the exemption project, deputy Any Ortiz (Cidadania-RS), will accept the entire text sent by the Senate. This means maintaining the benefit to the main job generators until 2027.

A Sheet had access to the report, which should be presented to the leaders of the Chamber of Deputies this Tuesday (8). Earlier, this Monday (7), the rapporteur told the newspaper O Globo that she would accept the text prepared by the senators.

“The exemption from the payroll represents the maintenance of an important component of international competitiveness, as well as protecting the employability and consumption of families at the national level”, justifies the deputy, in the report.

The text must still undergo correction adjustments before being filed in the House system, and the expectation is that this will happen, at the latest, on the morning of this Tuesday.

Ortiz will also take advantage of meetings with leaders to negotiate the possibility of inserting the project on an urgent basis.

According to the report, the full adoption of the text by the Senate aims to “speed up the processing of this matter”.

Payroll exemption began during the Dilma Rousseff (PT) government, in 2011, and had successive extensions. The measure allows exempt sectors to pay rates of 1% to 4.5% on gross revenue, instead of 20% on payroll for Social Security and other contributions.

The PL was approved by the CAE (Economic Affairs Commission) of the Senate in June on a terminating basis, but members of the governing base articulated an appeal for the text to also be analyzed by the plenary of the House. The base’s idea was to gain time in the Senate and try to postpone the discussion between federal deputies.

To compensate for the extension of the exemption, the project also extends, for the same period, the 1% increase in the Cofins-Importation rate – by current law it only goes until December.

The approval of the text at the CAE represented a setback for the Ministry of Finance, given the potential impact on the accounts of at least R$ 9.4 billion.

The 17 segments covered by the project are footwear, call center, communication, apparel and clothing, civil construction, construction companies and infrastructure works, leather, vehicle and bodywork manufacturing, machinery and equipment, animal protein, textiles, information technology, communication technology, integrated circuit design, subway-railway passenger transport, collective road transport and road freight transport.