With the delay of the House to guide the Federal Government project that exempts from Income Tax (IR) who earns up to R $ 5,000, The Senate Economic Affairs Committee (CAE) approved, on Wednesday (24), an alternative bill (PL) that also exempts from IR the workers who receive up to R $ 5,000.
The proposal was approved at CAE unanimously, with 21 votes in favor. As it was being ended, the text can go straight to the House of Representatives, without passing through the Senate plenaryunless any appeal be presented.
PL 1.952 of 2019 was reported by Senator Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), political opponent in Alagoas of the IR project rapporteur in the House, Federal Deputy Arthur Lira (PP-AL).
The project reported by Renan also provides for a smaller IR charging for those who receive between R $ 5,000 and R $ 7,350, the same track to the proposal by Lira in the House. The measure also provides for tax compensation with increased tax for those who receive over R $ 600 thousand per year.
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Senator Renan Calheiros gives an interview after approval of the project exempting from income tax who receives up to R $ 5,000 per month – Photo: Lula Marques/Agência Brasil
Calheiros stated that The voting of the project at CAE sought to unlock the processing of IR exemption in the Chamberwhich was being used, according to the Alagoas Senator, as a bargaining currency to approve the proposal for amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of armor and amnesty to the convicts for attempted coup d’état that culminated on January 8.
The senator pointed out that the matter “is of great relevance to the correction of tax injustices with the lower people.”
At a meeting of leaders on Tuesday (23), it was defined that the IR exemption government project will be voted in the plenary of the Chamber on October 1st.
For Senator Eduardo Braga (MDB-AM), it was CAE’s decision to vote on the story that forced the House to guide the theme for next week.
“If it wasn’t for the initiative of the Commission on Economic Affairs, we may not finally see the realization of a right of the Brazilian people and the Brazilian worker to be won,” said Braga.
The government has been requesting the vote on the exemption of IR in the House plenary since the return of parliamentary recess in early August.
Renan x Lira
Senator Renan Calheiros criticized the IR exemption rapporteur in the House, Arthur Lira. For Renan, Lira tries to prevent the raising of the aliquots charged from Bets – betting companies online – From 8% to 12%, in addition to trying to limit the taxation of remittances of profits and dividends abroad.
“Remove from taxation people who perceive greater salaries and greater dividends, which starts the tax justice of the president’s project; and other innovations, than the rapporteur [Lira] He says he will resolve with the plenary of the House of Representatives, because he has a opposite, evidently contrary position. ”
In the Chamber project, the federal government proposed that the collection of extra tax on the richest compensates for the relief of the poorest tax.
Progressive additional rates will affect those who earn more than $ 600,000 per year, reaching the maximum level of 10% for those who earn more than $ 1.2 million annually, suggestions that have so far been maintained by rapporteur Arthur Lira.
According to Deputy Arthur Lira, an opinion on a project that exempts to go to those who earn up to $ 5,000 is the result of agreement between leaders – Photo: Lula Marques/File/Agency Brazil
According to Lira, his report is the result of agreement between leaders. “The text is not a rapporteur, but the result of convergence based on dialogue and work, to guarantee more tax justice. An essential step for Brazil,” said the deputy on a social network.
Renan Calheiros also warned that House leaders would be trying to postpone the exemption to January 2027, “with the argument that if it was in January 2026, this would undoubtedly have an electoral political connotation and influence the result of the elections, as if the exemption of those who earn up to $ 5,000 per month could wait two years to come into force.”
Senator Alagoas added that the project innovates, in relation to that of the government, for creating a tax regularization program for taxpayers with IR that have income of up to R $ 7,350.
