Rapporteur must present the opinion of the PEC of Fuels this Monday (27)

the senator Fernando Bezerra 27 (MDB-PE) rapporteur of Fuels PEC in the Senate, intends to deliver the opinion on the project this Monday (27) in the afternoon. The text will include an increase of R$ 200 in the Brazil aid thus going from R$ 400 to R$ 600, and the creation of the so-called “truck voucher”, which will be R$ 1,000, according to Bezerra.

The rapporteur also said that he will include a readjustment in the gas allowance, which is currently R$ 50 every two months, which would become about R$ 120, which is the average value of a cylinder. It is worth mentioning that all these measures will be in effect until the end of the year.

The new actions will lead to a financial impact of BRL 34.8 billion for the Union, a difference of more than BRL 5 billion taking into account the value estimated by the initial text of the PEC.

Of this total, only the costs of increasing Auxílio Brasil would be R$ 21.6 billion. As for the creation of the subsidy for truck drivers, the federal government will have to disburse around R$ 5.4 billion.

The PEC of Fuels is urgently addressed by the federal government, which is evaluating measures to cool the rise in fuel prices, amid the readjustments made by Petrobras due to inflation in the international scenario.

Compensation to states

Senator Fernando Bezerra declared on Friday (24) that he withdrew from the text the Union’s financial compensation to federative units that chose to zero the ICMS on diesel oil and cooking gas.

The rapporteur argued that the resources would be “better used” if they were used for other purposes, such as subsidies to more specific audiences.

In the original text, by Senator Carlos Portinho (PL-RJ) the proposal would grant, as an incentive to states that zero the ICMS rate, both for diesel and for cooking gas, a compensation for the losses in collection due to the measure.

tax impact

Bezerra declared that he is working together with the government’s economic team to address the sources of revenue to fund the proposal. According to him, “the commitment is with the construction of a report that is close to the fiscal impacts contained in the government’s proposal”.

“I think that just as the states are having an extraordinary collection this year, the Union is also having it. Royalty revenue, dividend revenue, the Union’s own tax revenue has been very expressive,” he said.

“So, I think that certainly, when the proposal is drawn up on Monday, the Ministry of Economy will manifest itself to say that the government has the necessary resources, it has the necessary fiscal ballast for these measures to be expanded without increasing the public debt” , he concluded.