Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Saturday, 23, that the messages released this week, in audios obtained by the Federal Police, of dialogues between former President Jair Bolsonaro and allies demonstrate that the United States tariff against Brazilian products has the “sole purpose of getting rid of scammers.” “We saw there for the messages changed that the sole purpose is to rid the face of scammers and has no other purpose, this hostility, other than the far right in Brazil,” said the minister, about the tariff imposed by the government of US President Donald Trump.
The statements occurred during Haddad’s participation, by video, in the meeting of the Workers Party (PT) to discuss the national and international political conjuncture on Saturday in Brasilia.
The minister again defended national sovereignty and said he never considered giving part partnership with the United States, “but not in the conditions being placed.”
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The audios cited by Haddad are part of the PF investigation that indicated Bolsonaro and his son, federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), on Wednesday, 20. They will be able to respond for coercion crimes in the course of process and abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law by trying to interfere with the trial of the Criminal Court, underway in the Supreme Court (STF), with the help of US authorities.
“Brazil cannot serve as a backyard of anyone. We know this. We have such density, importance to maintain and guarantee our sovereignty,” said the Minister of Finance, highlighting actions to strengthen business relations and saying that the country cannot “choose partners” but have business with the whole world.
Compliments to Alckmin
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The Vice President of the Republic and Minister of Development, Industry and Commerce, Geraldo Alckmin, also participated in the debate and was praised by Haddad for the work he has conducted in the dealings with the US authorities. “This is how it has to be. Without bravata, but making it worth the dignity and sobriety of our people, and respect for the Brazilian people,” he said.
Income tax
Haddad also spoke about the proposal to increase the income tax exemption range sent by the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to Congress. Finance Minister criticized previous governments for not correcting the IR table, and said this caused more than 20 million lower -income Brazilians to pay the tax on salaries.
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“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 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.
“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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Measures package to boost access to credit for purchase of real estate
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 of turbocharging real estate credit, with all the cautions due, but making a cheap credit source, which is savings, reaching the low -income worker and middle class,” said the minister.
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*With information from Estadão and Agência Brasil
