Lula government makes concessions to try to save the provisional measure and prevent the text from expiring
Which evaluates the MP (Provisional Measure) presented by the Federal Government as (Tax on Financial Operations) is gathered this Thursday (7.out.2025) to analyze the report prepared by the deputy (PT-SP).
On Monday (6.out), the government of the president (PT) concessions to try to save the MP. Congress has until Wednesday (8.out) to approve the text. If the measure expires, it will be a loss of R $ 35 billion – the tax waiver and the collection – for the government in 2025 and 2026.
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With the dehydration of the text, the expectation now is. If the loss of collection is at this level, the Finance Minister, (PT), will have to look for other sources of revenue.
Haddad met on Monday (6.out), with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, (Republicans-PB), Zarattini and party leaders at the official residence of Casa Baixa, in Brasilia, to try to achieve consensus.
In an interview published on Monday (6.out), Motta had already signaled that the MP to be approved in the House and that its scope made the debate in Congress.
The MP vote has been postponed 3 times. There are impasses in relation to points of the text and the opposition is against giving fiscal space to the government in the election year. Even with the concessions, therefore, there is a possibility that the MP still barred in the commission, before going to the House and Senate plenary, which would be a disaster for the Lula government.
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Lula needs extra money next year to finance the package with measurements aimed at reelection, which includes programs such as the gas of the people and the foot.
Zarattini has already made concessions. The main thing was to decide to maintain the exemption of Fixed Income IR (Income Tax), such as LCA (Agribusiness Credit Letter) and LCI (Real Estate Credit Letter), to break the measure. Earlier, I sought to tax them at 7.5%.
The rapporteur wants to preserve measures such as increased BET rates from 12% to 18%, the increase of interest on equity from 15% to 20%, the limit of tax compensation and the new floor of the CSLL (social contribution on net income) to fintechs.
