Leaders maintain agreement and taxation of funds is scheduled for next week

The acting president of the Chamber of Deputies, Marcos Pereira (Republicanos-SP), reversed his decision to table for this Tuesday (17) the bill that deals with the taxation of closed-end investment funds and investments abroad, maintaining the agreement initially reached between President Arthur Lira (PP-AL) and the college of leaders.

With this, the leaders agreed that the project should only be analyzed on the 24th, as had been initially agreed with the rapporteur, deputy Pedro Paulo (PSD-RJ), after Lira’s return to Brazil – he is on an official mission in abroad – and after new rounds of conversations with parliamentarians and the Minister of Finance himself, Fernando Haddad.

The rapporteur said in an interview this Monday (17) that he should meet with Haddad to try to align some points of the project, which already blocks the plenary agenda of the Chamber of Deputies, preventing the analysis of other matters.

Pedro Paulo said that there are still differences between the difference in rates between offshore and exclusive funds, and everything will be discussed between the government and leaders before the vote.

The government leader, José Guimarães (PT-CE), stated after the leaders’ meeting that the matter has been “pacified” and that regardless of voting next week there are no doubts about approval. “It’s a big victory for the Chamber, for the country and for the government,” he said.