Amid the articulation of Congress to approve the urgent processing to the overthrow of the decree that increases the Tax on Financial Operations (IOF)the government paid about R $ 230 million in parliamentary amendments.
Data from the Siga Brasil System, from Federal SenateThey show that until Sunday (15), R $ 6.32 billion had been paid in amendments. From the amount, R $ 3.13 billion were in individual amendments; R $ 1.83 billion in benches amendments; R $ 1.07 billion in commission amendments; and R $ 294.76 million in rapporteur amendments.
In the update available, until Monday (16), another R $ 230 million in amendments had been paid, totaling R $ 6.55 billion since January, according to the Siga Brasil system.
Of the new payment, most were directed to commission amendments: R $ 150 million. Of the rest, R $ 60 million went to bench amendments and R $ 20 million for individual amendments.
Despite payments, the amounts are still exceeded away from R $ 50 billion expected for parliamentary amendments in 2025. Some parliamentarians also reported receiving money from amendments for 2023 and 2024, and consider the pace of slow release.
Deputies and senators have reported this dissatisfaction to government leaders and articulators of the Planalto Palace. In a meeting with the presence of the Minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann, parliamentarians asked for more agility to release amendments in the Ministry of Health, for example.
Governors remember that the 2025 budget was only approved by Congress in March, and sanctioned in April. Therefore, with at least three months late.
The urgency to the project for the overthrow of IOF’s discharge in the second was approved by 346 favorable votes and 97 contrary, a more comfortable opposition score than the group itself provided. Governors still see a possibility of holding the term of the decree, despite the approval of the urgency.
The government also bets on this approval of the urgency to gain time and try to negotiate the provisional measure that increases the taxation of a series of financial investments as compensation to partial declines in the discharge of IOF.
The provisional measure is extremely contested in Congress by party leaders. The text has already received almost 680 suggestions for change. Most presented by the opposition and center, but there are also requests for changes in the base itself.
If the MP is not approved within 120 days, it is valid. The projection is that the commission for the analysis of the MP only starts more intensely in August, after the parliamentary recess. At the moment, no leader in the center has committed himself to the approval of the initiative as it is.
