Expansion of IR exemption: Haddad says that recalculation has been made and measurement will cost $ 27 billion

Expansion of IR exemption: Haddad says that recalculation has been made and measurement will cost $ 27 billion


According to the Minister of Finance, the impact will be less than 35 billion dollars initially estimated; The measure will be treated during Lula’s meeting with the presidents of the Chamber and the Senate

Finance Minister Fernando Haddad explained this Monday afternoon that the government made a recalculation and began to estimate that resignation with the Expansion of exemption from income tax Cost about $ 27 billion, a lower impact than the $ 35 billion initially estimated. The new estimate had already been anticipated by Estadão/Transmission.

Haddad explained that last year, the estimated farm was about 32 billion dollars of renunciation, now revised at $ 27 billion. “It was a recalculation. This year it will have a small correction after the budget. This year there will already be a correction due to the increase in minimum salarySo the base changes, “he said.



Haddad said that Tuesday 17, there will be a meeting with the presidents of Room, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB) e Senate, David Alcoholumbre (Union-AP), to deal with the theme. Only after this meeting, the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva makes some announcements regarding the IR.

The minister repeated that he cannot anticipate the president regarding this announcement, but made some confirmations. He said that the minimum tax thesis is maintained and that the spirit of the project that will be announced maintains the guidelines already issued by the government with the correction of some points.

“What was announced with the changes commissioned by President Lula, who was not moving the discounts and also considering the CNPJ. So there were two required changes, they were ready for two weeks and should announce this week,” he said.

In case of discounts, Haddad refers to the end of the exemption of income tax for those who have serious diseases in higher income bundles, now guaranteed for pensioners for serious diseases or accidents. In November, Haddad said that those who earn up to $ 20,000 would have guaranteed the exemption. Above this, the benefit would have fallen, has maintained only a complete deduction in health expenditure. At the request of Lula, this measure was taken by the project.

As for the CNPJ, Haddad has not detailed what will be contemplated to the extent that. In other interviews, however, the minister had already declared that the formula prepared by the farm would have taken into consideration the taxes that have already been paid by the taxpayers’ company that adapt to the minimum tax rule.

The taxation will be carried out at the source on distributed dividends, as shown in the Estadão/Transmission In December. Therefore, the tax due should be calculated in a complementary way to what is paid by the company so that the minimum required is actually collected. This point was one of the elements that required a recalibration, which delayed the presentation of the proposal.

Source: Terra

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