Tax reform will raise municipal revenues, says Alckmin

The Vice-President of the Republic and Minister of Growth, Business, Commerce and Providers, Geraldo Alckmin, acknowledged that the municipalities won’t be harmed by the tax reform that the federal government will attempt to approve within the Nationwide Congress. In response to him, the measure will simplify, scale back prices and enhance effectivity, which ought to generate a rise within the assortment of cities.

“The (tax) reform is to not take cash from anybody, however to hunt simplification, value discount and financial effectivity. You possibly can make sure that the gathering will develop for the municipalities”, acknowledged Alckmin.

The tax reform shall be mentioned from a working group created within the Nationwide Congress primarily based on two proposals which might be already being mentioned within the Chamber of Deputies (PEC 45/19) and within the Federal Senate (PEC 110/19). The rapporteur is deputy Aguinaldo Ribeiro (PP-PB). The federal government won’t ahead its personal proposal, however will make the most of the content material of those tasks in progress and intensify parliamentary articulation to approve them.

Alckmin’s assertion was given on Monday night time (13), throughout the vice chairman’s participation within the 84th Common Assembly of the Nationwide Entrance of Mayors (FNP), in Brasília. The entity brings collectively managers from all capitals and municipalities with greater than 80,000 inhabitants. “The native authorities is the federal government that sees the issues of the inhabitants”, highlighted the vice-president, in a speech to the municipal managers.

Investments

Alckmin recalled the investments deliberate for that yr, expanded with the approval of the Proposed Constitutional Modification (PEC) of the Transition, on the finish of 2022, which licensed public investments past the spending cap rule, which limits progress to the earlier yr’s inflation .

“The most important extra-cap, the largest supplementation was for well being, (with) R$ 22 billion extra for many who make the SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde) a actuality, that are the states and municipalities”. Alckmin additionally talked about the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program, which has anticipated sources of R$ 10.4 billion in 2023.