Deputy Cláudio Cajado (PP-BA) is the rapporteur for the new fiscal framework in the Chamber.| Photo: Zeca Ribeiro/Chamber of Deputies.

Rapporteur of the project for a new fiscal framework, federal deputy Claudio Cajado (PP-BA) said that the devices introduced in the proposal that raise the government spending limit as early as 2024 would be a kind of compensation for the exemption of fuels made in 2022. interview to the newspaper “O Estado de S.Paulo”, he argued that the Union’s revenue was impacted by the measure taken by the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The fiscal rule proposed by the government says that the expenditure growth limit must follow that of revenues at a rate of 70%.

“In the previous government, there was a decrease in revenue due to fuel exemptions. So, the revenue that you are calculating from June of last year to July of this year will be impacted by this drop in revenue”, declared the deputy. “In addition, there was a deflation due to this exemption. We calculate that this would amount to around R$40 billion, which we are adding for the year 2024, at the start. Over time, this would be absorbed by the government, making supplements. So we did it all at once.”

In the interview, he did not say whether the changes were a request from the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, with whom he met on Monday (15). Cajado also said that he has received proposals for changes in the text from “all” the parties. “I’m not going to say I won’t take suggestions; but for me to accept it, there has to be a broad agreement like the one built up to here. Otherwise, you serve one party and not another; one deputy and not another. Coming to this text was not easy. So, I’m going to share this with the college of leaders, with the government and with Arthur Lira himself. [PP-AL].”

This week, the plenary of the Chamber approved an emergency regime for the project that establishes the new fiscal regime. The text is expected to be voted on next Wednesday (24).