Deputy Arthur Lira (PP-AL), rapporteur of the bill that expands income tax exemption for those who earn up to R $ 5,000, said on Wednesday, 16, that the expectation is that the plenary vote will not be easy and that the project should be the target of attempts to change.
“We were careful to talk to the party coordinators to bring to their parties what we were arguing here. Now, I do not break any expectation that this text will have a very easy processing in the plenary,” he said, after the approval of the text in special commission.
Lira reaffirmed the forecast is that the text be based in August in the plenary. He said, however, that it will be up to the mayor, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), set a date for analysis.
Earlier, the rapporteur said he hoped the debate in plenary will be “a free field.”
“Here in the commission is a more controlled environment. Democratic but more controlled. In plenary, no. In the plenary, everyone can highlight, everyone can mend, everyone can do the operations that the parties want,” he said.
For Lira, a work of convincing deputies will be required. “The plenary is sovereign to modify the text. And the rapporteur, as I said, does not own the text. The text is from the majority of the house plenary,” he said.
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“Similar, but not equal” report to the project
Lira was also asked by journalists about the similarity of her text with the project sent by the government to Congress. He replied that his report, “at the heart, is similar, but not the same.”
“He preserves the minimal idea, the main idea that is the taxation of the 10% minimum income. But we have walked for several other situations. We are here in a reduced representation (in the commission). Of course we were careful to talk to party coordinators to bring to their parties what we were arguing here,” he said.
IOF
Lira also stated that a possible decision of Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court on the impasse of the Financial Operations Tax (IOF) should not influence the processing of the Income Tax Project. According to him, it is up to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the Congress summit to find a way out for the theme.
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“I see no relationship between one thing and another. If it speculated much of the possibility of finding compensation for IOF. But there was no consensus on this. The government has a position the congress apparently has another position,” he said.
Dividend Taxation Reducer
Asked about the reincorporation of the reducer in his report, Lira yesterday had a farm return on the subject and explained that, before, had no data to ensure that the maintenance of the mechanism “would not cause an excess of collection or an inconsistency in the return.”
According to the rapporteur, the “leftover” of R $ 12.7 billion in the project collection was used to compensate for the reducer. “The reducing government’s account is $ 6 billion in 2027 and $ 6 billion in 2028. Therefore, within the amount of left over. If there is any deficit, it must be minimal,” he said.
