THE President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed on Wednesday (17) a Provisional Measure (MP) that creates the Special Taxation Regime for Datacenter Services in Brazil, the Redata.
The program is part of the National Datacenters Policy (PNDC), linked to the New Brazil Industry (NIB), and seeks to boost national growth in strategic areas of the so -called Industry 4.0, such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.
The objective is to expand the Brazilian capacity for storage, processing and data management.
The MP, with immediate validity, needs to be approved by the National Congress within 120 days to be permanently valid. It was presented during an event at the Planalto Palace, in which President Lula also sanctioned the law that regulates the digital environment for children and adolescents and sent to Congress a Big Techs Economic Regulation Billwith measures to combat practices that undermine competition in the digital world.
According to the government, the Incentives provided for in the writing MP guarantee exemption from taxes such as PIS/Pasep, Cofins and IPI in the acquisition of equipment Information and Communication Technology (ICT), imported or produced in Brazil, intended for the implementation, expansion and maintenance of Datacers.
Equipment without similar national production is also exempt from import tax.
Datacers are physical installations that houses computing infrastructures such as servers, storage systems and network equipment, with the purpose of collecting, processing, storing and distributing data and applications safely and continuously.
“Only 40% of Brazil’s data is processed in the national territory. All the rest is sent by Cape Submarino to other locations in the world, to be processed abroad, where our legislation, especially the citizen data protection legislation does not reach,” argued Finance Minister Fernando Haddad.
“We are hiring outside services that should be done here, provided here. So, we want to bring the datacers to Brazil to provide services at a cheap price to Brazilians, to Brazilian companies, to Brazilian universities, to Brazilian hospitals, for SUS,” he added.
In contrast to the incentives of the writing, the Companies will have to invest 2% of the value of products purchased in the domestic or imported in research, development and innovation projects. The appeal will be applied to priority programs to support development and industrial densification of the digital economy production chain, the Ministry of Finance said.
To the companies benefiting from the Redata will also have to offer the national market at least 10% of the processing capacitystorage and data processing. In the case of developments for the North, Northeast and Midwest, the policy provides for a 20% reduction of these two obligations (investment and processing capacity).
The writing will also bring strict sustainability obligations.
“We want to attract sustainable investments to Brazil. Today, this type of investment requires very high sustainability rules. We are talking about green energy, we are talking about little water use, precisely with the most modern technology that recycles water to avoid improper and exaggerated use of water,” said Haddad.
THE Government reserved R $ 5.2 billion for the edict in next year’s budget. Already From 2027, the program will also have the benefits of tax reform. These stimuli have the potential to attract private investments of $ 2 trillion over 10 years, according to the farm estimate.
