Among the criticisms that the governor of Minas Gerais, (Novo), have made to the Government (PT), one of the most constant refers to the confidentiality imposed by the petista, as classified certain information as confidential for a hundred years period.
The miner, however, is also the subject of questions in the state for the tax benefits conferred by the government to the business sector.
The sum of this revenue of collection has grown each year, and in the 2025 budget is expected to reach R $ 22.7 billion.
The amount is higher than the designed for the expenses of the Education Secretariat – R $ 19.5 billion – folder that concentrates the highest level of expenses.
Sought, the Secretariat of Finance said it forwards information to the supervisory agencies and which provides on its website data regarding revenue and exemptions.
However, the page does not show details of companies or the sectors benefited by the renunciations.
In a publication last Wednesday (21), the Minas Gerais governor stated: “Here, no one hides anything. All of course, accessible and auditable: from the works on roads to the governor’s travels. While in Brasilia the secrecy of 100 years is still routine, in Minas, transparency is a rule.”
Zema in recent months in an attempt to popularize his name with the right -wing electorate in the midst of whom he is an ally.
In the post, he referred to access to personal information regarding intimacy, private life, honor and image, regardless of confidentiality classification and a maximum period of a hundred years.
In the 2022 elections, President Lula promised to end the measure. He came to the confidentiality decreed by Bolsonaro, but.
Zema, however, did not have the habit of criticizing in the same intensity and publicly the confidentiality measures imposed by the former president.
In Minas Gerais, the increase in tax benefits has returned to light in recent weeks, when the government has contained R $ 1.1 billion from the budget and also at the time it handed over to the deputies the State Plan with the Union.
At a hearing at the Legislative Assembly, Deputy Governor Mateus Simões (Novo) was charged on the lack of transparency of tax waivers by Deputy Lohanna (PV) of the opposition.
She mentioned that the governor of, (Republicans), of tax benefits in his state and should serve as an example to the Minas Gerais government.
Simões, the pre-candidate chosen by Zema to succeed him in the government of Minas Gerais, said that tax concessions are not a favor to the business community, but admitted that the lack of transparency bothers him.
“I have horror, I will even use a stronger word, disgust of secrecy. I think tax secrecy and bank secrecy is a counter-factor that was placed in our constitution. We only protect the evildoer.”
He made a commitment to formulate a study to replicate the federal government model to disseminate the greatest beneficiaries of the waivers.
The rise of tax benefits granted by the Minas Gerais government compared to the previous year was R $ 4.4 billion, in values updated by inflation. The weight of these subsidies in the proportion of the state’s net current revenue also increased from 12.31% in 2024 to 14.64% in 2025.
Another of Zema’s favorite topics to criticize federal management is public safety. Last week, Nayib Bukele, known for preaching a row in the fight against crime.
At the time, he stated that “in Brazil, criminals are often within the government” and that the “Brazilian state decided not to combat the crime.”
