Rogério Marinho (PL-RN) says that Ministry of Finance inserted estimates with “rude errors” in the preparation of the budget
The Senator (PL-RN) sent this Wednesday (5.FEV.2025) a representation to the (Federal Court of Auditors) to prevent the government of the President (PT) from using projections of collection in (Board of Directors Tax Appeals ) In the composition of the federal budget.
In the document, the senator argument that last year the Ministry of Finance missed by 99.5% the amount he raised with the judgments with quality vote in the agency. At the time, the government estimated $ 54 billion in extraordinary revenues, but closed the year with $ 307.8 million. This is the representation (PDF – 299 kb).
Marinho asked TCU a precautionary measure against the inclusion of collections with carf victories in the 2025 budget. In the view of the opposition leader in the Senate, the government used estimates without foundation to justify fiscal and budgetary policies.
“The gross error that resulted in the overestimation of 99.5% of Carf revenues for the 2024 budget is recognized, with the granting of precautionary measure to prohibit the application of this methodology to the 2025 budget, avoiding if new use of overestimation to justify tax and budgetary policies without technical foundation ”says the document.
Like the Poder360 In January, the IRS recognized the error and said that the estimated methodology made by the Council “It was not believable”. For 2025, the federal government estimates $ 28 billion with trials, a number that is seen with skepticism after the result in 2024.
The senator also requested that the Court of Accounts identify if serious negligence occurred in the modeling of estimates and that if confirmed, that the TCU holds responsible those involved.
O Poder360 contacted the Ministry of Finance and will update the post when receiving a position.
