Tax reform should be voted on in the first week of July, says Lira

The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, said that the text of the tax reform should be voted between the 3rd and 7th of July. The declaration was made this Thursday (22nd), after a meeting with governors of the 26 states and the Federal District to discuss the reform. Lira also said that he will also meet with mayors of capitals and with the productive sector. The deputy understands that the theme is consensual.

“May we, with everyone’s help, come up with the best text for Brazil, which needs a tax reform that brings simplification, less bureaucracy, legal security, a lower Brazil Cost, that listens to the concerns of the most diverse regions of Brazil. The governors here were able to express their regional and state concerns”, he points out.

The text of the proposal still needs to be adjusted, but the rapporteur, Deputy Aguinaldo Ribeiro (PP-PB), points out that tax reform has always been a priority for a working group that discusses the issue in the Chamber. For Deputy Reginaldo Lopes (PT-MG), the joint action between the various political and society actors was fundamental for the construction of the text.

“We achieved an extraordinary political alignment of the Chamber and the Senate, a federative disposition for the dialogue of all governors and governors. An important understanding of the productive sectors, which in fact, with the reform, Brazil grows and everyone wins”, he points out.

Federal deputy Alceu Moreira (MDB-RS) said that, with the finalization of the reform text, it will be possible to simulate the impact for each sector. “We are going to work on the text, but the construction, for now, is very good”, he believes.

In a debate promoted by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), in Brasília, last Wednesday (21), the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), guaranteed speed in the processing of the tax reform when the proposal reaches the House . The senator highlighted the importance and unanimity that Brazil needs a simplified tax system.

“We all recognize the absolute need for tax reform. If we ask all the people here, everyone will answer yes. Obviously there is a discussion of form and content that must be overcome within a logic that is the logic that everyone who sits around the table to discuss it has to have the understanding that there is a public interest much greater than the interest individual or corporate”, he said.

The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, was also in the debate. He reinforced the government’s commitment to the approval of the matter. “We are going to be, in the next two weeks, immersed exclusively in the task of approving the tax reform in the Chamber.