Finance Minister Fernando Haddad criticized on Saturday (23) previous governments for not correcting the income tax table, causing more than 20 million lower income Brazilians to pay the tax on salaries.
“The non -correction of income tax promoted a huge increase in taxes from the economically more fragile layers. That is, the seven years of non -correction of the Income Tax table included, in the payment of this tax, something around 20 million Brazilians who should not be paying income tax and began to pay in governments Temer and Bolsonaro,” Haddad said.
The statement was given during the minister’s participation in a debate on political conjuncture promoted by the Workers Party (PT), in Brasilia, an event that was also attended by Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, from petist parliamentarians and members of the subtitle.
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The IR table was frozen between 2015 and 2022, since the end of the government of Dilma Rousseff (which suffered impeachment in 2016), through the management of Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro, accumulating more than 36% lag in the period, according to calculations of the National Union of the Federal Revenue Auditors (National Sindifisco). Throughout this period, only workers who earned up to $ 1,903 were exempt.
In 2024, the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva raised the exemption range to R $ 2,824 and, in May this year, this exemption track benefited those who earn up to R $ 3,036. Now, the expectation is for the approval of the exemption for those who earn up to $ 5,000, a promise of Lula’s campaign and advanced this week in the National Congress.
“There will be 25 million Brazilians benefiting from the correction of the income tax table. And a neutral proposal from the tax point of view, because it starts to charge, from 141 thousand Brazilians, a tax that today they do not pay. They are Brazilians who have income of more than $ 1 million per year. We are doing some tax justice, charging the peak, 142,000 Brazilians, to favor 25 million, to favor 25 million, to favor 25 million Brazilians, ”said Haddad.
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For Haddad, the measure will exempt most workers with a formal contract (CLT), with an impact on strengthening income and stimulating the domestic consumer market, directly benefiting the economy.
The House of Representatives approved last Thursday (21), unanimously, the. The matter also provides for partial tax reduction for those who receive between $ 5,000 and $ 7,350. Authored by the Federal Government, PL 1,087 of 2025 is reported by Deputy Arthur Lira (PP-AL). To compensate for the loss of revenue with the exemption of IR, the text already approved in a special commission of the House provides for an extra progressive rate of up to 10% for those who earn over R $ 600 thousand per year, or R $ 50 thousand per month.
Study of the Intersindical Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (Dieese) estimates that change can expand from 10 million to 20 million the total exempt workers from IR. The partial tax reduction for those who earn up to R $ 7,300 should reach 16 million people. Currently, it is exempt from IR who earns up to two minimum wages (R $ 3,036 per month).
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Housing credit
During his participation in the PT event, Fernando Haddad also announced that the government prepares a package of measures to boost access to credit for the purchase of real estate in the country, focusing on low -income workers and middle class. The idea of the government is to make the resources deposited in savings flexible to offer cheaper financing.
“We are ultimately the negotiations with the Central Bank, Fazenda and Planning, so that our National Monetary Council can deliver to President Lula another important achievement to boost real estate credit, with all cautions due, but making a cheap credit source, which is savings, reaching the low -income worker and middle class,” said the minister.
