The Finance and Taxation Commission (CFT) should hold a public hearing next Wednesday (11) to discuss the proposal that deals with updating the values of Simples Nacional.
According to the project’s rapporteur, deputy Marco Bertaiolli (PSD), the new values only followed the correction of the Broad Consumer Price Index (IPCA), the official indicator of inflation in the country, accumulated from December 2006 to 2022, when the General Law of Simples Nacional was approved.
By the substitute presented by the parliamentarian, the new revenue ceilings would be corrected as follows:
– for Individual Microentrepreneurs (MEI): from the current BRL 81 thousand to BRL 144.9 thousand;
– for Microenterprises (ME): from R$ 360 thousand to R$ 869.4 thousand;
– for Small Businesses (EPP): from R$4.8 million to R$8.69 million.
“This value is the same as creation, with no real increase. It is correct, fair and necessary for us to have the update so that micro and small companies do not need to keep opening underlyings so as not to burst the limit of Simples”, said deputy Bertaiolli, rapporteur of the project and president of the CFT, to the CNN .
Next week, representatives of the Federal Revenue Service, Sebrae and the National Confederation of Commerce (CNC) are expected to discuss the topic. The measure is a demand from the commercial sector, which, through the Confederation of Commercial Associations of Brazil (CACB), launched a national campaign in defense of updating the Simples Nacional table.
The president of CACB, Alfredo Cotait, reinforces that MSEs are the basis for generating jobs in the country. “(It is necessary) The correction so that these companies can return to income generation and growth. We have been talking to the Executive so that he (government) understands that for economic development, income generation and growth of the country, there is no other way but to help these companies grow”, he said when defending the campaign ‘Mais Simples Nacional, Brasil mais strong’.
According to data from Sebrae, in March, nine out of ten jobs were created by small businesses, equivalent to 88.9% of the total number of jobs opened in that month. Micro and small companies are responsible for 430 thousand of the 615 thousand new formal jobs created between January and March.
According to Cotait, inflation has made it impossible for small businesses to continue. “It is more than necessary that this be done. In addition to survival, it is a matter of justice: leaving these companies for more than 5 years without correcting the framework, they will languish,” he said.
The media, however, faces obstacles on the part of the Executive, as it displeases part of the economic team who argues that it would have a negative impact on tax collection.
“We talked to the Revenue, who said that this is giving up revenue. We need to go to the real Brazil: this collection does not and will not exist. The small business owner, when he sees that his limit is going to burst at the end of the year, first, he stops earning, he stops selling. Or he opens a second or third micro-enterprise. […] he sliced into several micro-enterprises. It is not fair to burden Brazil with this situation”, argued Bertaiolli during the CFT session last Wednesday (4th).
Source: CNN Brasil

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