The transient taxation of agribusiness exports is among the measures that members of the Workers Party (PT) have been defending both party and government to reduce food prices. The information is from the newspaper S.Paulo Sheet.
However, for the Minister of Agrarian Development, Paulo Teixeira, the proposal “has no chance of prospering”. Even without confirming if the matter has already been debated internally or with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Teixeira said that the chief executive has already made it clear that “he will not take heterodox measures.”
The minister makes up a ministerial group that discusses a series of proposals in search of exits for the high price of food in Brazil, at the request of President Lula. Still as a federal deputy, in 2022, Teixeira even signed a bill establishing the tax export and meat exports in case of need.
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According to the now minister, the signature occurred only for the measure to be processed. Even so, the bill was rejected in three commissions of the House and follows for analysis in a fourth commission, by pressure from the ruralist bench.
Warning
The idea of export taxation as a regulatory mechanism is seen as a risk by the financial market. According to Sheetoperators have already warned members of the president’s economic and assistant area in this regard.
The government seems to have understood the message, and signaling has been precisely in the opposite direction. According to the Minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa, there is even a possibility of reducing import rates for certain cases.
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This is not the first time the idea of export taxation surrounds the government. In 2023, the farm announced a 9.2% tax on oil exports. The measure, however, was limited and transitory, four months long, with the objective of compensating for the drop in collection with the partial reoneration of fuel taxes such as gasoline and ethanol.
‘Interventions’ no; ‘Measures’
The theme has put more pressure on government communication, already considered “fragile” by experts. One of the most emblematic and recent cases of this difficulty was the
In addition to food inflation being one of Lula’s great challenges at the moment, proposals such as the change in food validity rules have been badly received, both by the market and social networks.
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Minister Rui Costa even announced that the government prepared a “set of interventions” to face the problem of food price. According to Folha, the minister chose to exchange the word “intervention” for “measures”, precisely to prevent more communication noise from happening.
