O Assaí announced on Wednesday (24) a defensive measure against the possible consequences of the landing of former contractor Casino do GPA. The company tries to protect itself from bearing GPA tax contingencies, from which 2021.
On Wednesday, Assaí asked the courts to make the GPA issuance arrested by the casino to be unavailable for sale or, as an alternative, a judicial deposit that covers any expenses with a parr (administrative procedure for recognition of liability) is made.
This procedure, in the approximate value of R $ 36 million, It refers to measures of the IRS and the Attorney General of the National Treasury that seek to attribute solidarity liability to Assaí for contingencies of the GPA.
The report contacted the GPA and the casino about the case, but has not yet received an answer.
The request for an injunction on Wednesday aims to prevent the sale of shares that belong to the casino, unless a guarantee of the Assaí will be given that the company will bear with values that have been charged from the network. It is a more incisive first movement to prevent what can become a stack of larger charges.
In 2024, the Assaí suffered a list of R $ 1.265 billion due to tax contingencies of the GPA. The revenue, however, canceled this procedure in October, after the GPA took responsibility for liabilities.
This year, however, the company suffered Parr, about R $ 36 million, related to the part of these contingencies. This is a more severe measure than license.
With the imminence of the sale of the remnant slice of the casino in the GPA, the atacarejos network saw as well to seek ways to ensure that it will not pay this bill.
Assaí also asks the GPA to present sufficient guarantees to keep the company without damages regarding the tax contingencies of the GPA prior to the split completed on December 31, 2020.
“As disclosed by the Company in a relevant fact of September 29, 2024, the split instruments completed on December 31, 2020 predict that there is no solidarity between companies regarding liabilities generated until the date of the split, pursuant to Article 233, sole paragraph, of the law of companies by stock, each party being responsible for their liabilities,” says the relevant fact of the company.
In practice, the movement aims to defend itself not only from this R $ 36 million procedure, but from others that may arise, considering that the GPA accumulates billionaire contingencies, in the accounts of people linked to Assaí.
O Estadão/Broadcast also found a number near R $ 17 billion In contentious ones, most of which would be in tax matters, some with more fragile theses in court.
This situation was, in the view of people along with the case and analysts near the companies, as a result of a GPA slicing in which the casino, at the time controller of the business, sold relevant units to relieve its debt, but maintained contingencies in the mother company.
These contingencies are great for the size of the company that remained, according to a person with knowledge of the subject.
