Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Wednesday (24) that the IRS will reach “the true thieves of the nation.” According to him, Investigation fronts will be reinforced if the Legislature takes advantage of the tax and customs compliance project, which has, among its axes, one that deals with the stretched debtors.
Haddad attended the hearing of the agricultural, livestock, supply and rural commission in the Chamber of Deputies, and defended the Bill 15 of 2024, in the National Congresswhich aims to benefit good taxpayers and punish stretch debuts.
“The recent IRS’s operations are coming to the real nation thieves. We had an operation in late August, which has broken a large gang in fuel and background. We will slowly arrive in the real robbers of the homeland. But with all due respect to the right of defense,” said the minister.
According to the project sent by the federal government in 2024, Companies that pay taxes on time may have a reduction of up to 3% in social contribution on net income (CSLL) for 3 years.
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The proposal was divided into three axes: compliance, benefit control, and stretch debtor. This last axis provides for the hardening of the rules against the stretch debtors, establishing three criteria to define this type of debtor.
In the first, the company must have irregular debt (without administrative or judicial suspension) above R $ 15 million and with greater value than the equity itself. The tax authorities estimate that these taxpayers should be $ 100 billion.
For the second criterion, the debtor must have an irregular debt of $ 15 million for more than one year.
And in the third criterion, the taxpayer must have more than R $ 15 million in debts, opening and closing companies often to change the National Register of Legal Entities (CNPJ).
“We expect this law to be approved, because it will reveal an organized crime scheme that, when revealed in its entirety, will demonstrate who effectively steals Brazil. This will not take too long,” said the minister.
Finance Minister Fernando Haddad participates in a public hearing in the House of Representatives LULA MARQUES/ BRAASIL AGENCY.
Income tax
During the hearing, some opposition parliamentarians accused the minister of being “cruel” for, according to them, trying to increase the collection through fees. Haddad reacted to the prosecution.
He criticized that during the Bolsonaro government, the country was without four years without correcting the income tax table, and at no time corrected the minimum wage above inflation.
“For you, it is not cruel to leave the income tax table seven years without updating. It is not cruel more than 10 million Brazilians to pay income tax during the Bolsonaro government. This is the greatest taxation you can do,” said the minister.
“For you, it is not cruelty not to give any readjustment for teachers for four years. Or for doctors and nurses who were at the front line of the fight against the pandemic. bets; of billionaires, bank or speculator. For you, this is cruel because it messes with relatives, friends. And the population and the poor to flap, aren’t they? ”He added.
The minister reiterated that the current government will enter history by exempting income tax as the largest number of Brazilians.
“We will finish the mandate of President Lula giving income tax exemption to 20 million Brazilians. Ten are already contemplated by the update of the Income Tax Table. Another 10 million will be exempt if the most dignified deputies vote in the report of Deputy Arthur Lira,” he added.
Vote next week
Haddad praised the mayor, Hugo Mota, for having marked, for next weekin plenary, the vote that will exempt people with income of up to R $ 5,000 per month.
“I want to see what will be the behavior of deputies who are indignant with tax. I want to see if they will exempt 10 million Brazilians and reduce the tax of another five million. In four years, there will be 25 million Brazilians who, either they will be exempt or will pay less income tax, in return 141,000 who currently pay only 2% tax and are being invited to pay a minimum of 10%,” he added.
