Haddad will present a new fiscal framework to Lula next week, says Randolfe

The leader of the government in Congress, Senator Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede-AP), said, this Thursday (9), that the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, will present the proposal for a change in the Brazilian tax regime to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Silva (PT) next week.

“The Minister of Finance wants to settle, firstly, the idea of ​​the fiscal framework with the economic team so as not to have any controversy with the economic team. Closed with the economic team, he will take it to the president next week”, said the senator, after a meeting of government leaders with President Lula this Thursday.

The meeting was attended by, in addition to Randolfe, government leaders in the Chamber, José Guimarães, and in the Senate, Jaques Wagner, as well as several ministers, including Haddad himself (Finance), Rui Costa (Civil House) and Alexandre Padilha (Relations Institutional).

The new tax regime will replace the public spending cap. The exchange became mandatory with the approval of the PEC of the PEC of the Burst at the end of last year. According to the text, the government is obliged to send the text by August 31 of this year. Haddad, however, anticipated and said he will present the proposal this month, five months before the deadline.

The change will take place through a supplementary bill, as the PEC of the Explosion allowed for the repeal of the spending ceiling as soon as this proposal is approved. With that, the government will need fewer votes to approve the modification.

According to the Independent Fiscal Institution (IFI), a body linked to the Federal Senate, in the Bolsonaro government there were five changes to the ceiling rules that add up to a fiscal impact of BRL 213 billion in relation to the original design.