The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) instructed his ministers to come up with an alternative proposal to raise the revenue limit for MEIs (microentrepreneurs)which is fixed at R$ 81 mil per year since 2018.
The Ministries of Finance, Planning and Entrepreneurship must prepare a text with less fiscal impact than the project currently being processed in the Chamber of Deputies by the beginning of next week. The tendency is to leave out micro and small companies.
On Monday (25), before the opinion on the PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) at the end of the 6×1 scale, Lula addressed this point in , according to reports made to CNN.
The final text of the PEC provides that a complementary law “may establish transitional measures, conditioned on the maintenance of employment levels, to mitigate the impacts resulting from this constitutional amendment, for individual microentrepreneurs, microenterprises and small businesses”.
A project already approved by the Senate increases the annual limit for MEIs from R$81,000 to R$130,000 per year and allows microentrepreneurs to have up to two employees (currently the limit is just one).
Now, in addition to updating the values annually by the IPCA (official inflation index).
The president of the special commission that analyzes the project, a deputy, said that she intends to complete the process before the parliamentary recess — which begins in mid-July.
“We want to speed up the meetings and meet the expectations set out in the PEC text, mitigating accumulated inflation and the effects of the 6×1 scale”he stated.
Any Ortiz also stated that she considers it essential to define new billing limits not only for MEIs, but for the entire Simples Nacional.
In the Treasury’s calculations, this could generate a fiscal impact of almost R$50 billion per year.
The economic team is working on more “economic” alternatives, including one with an impact of around R$2 billion per year, which provides for a kind of “exit ramp” from the MEI — the micro-entrepreneur will lose benefits from the special taxation regime as they move away from the current ceiling.
The economic team intends to avoid broader changes to Simples Nacional. Today the annual limit is R$360,000 for micro-enterprises and R$4.8 million for small companies.
