The governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), reiterated that he agrees with the backbone of the tax reform and that he agrees with 95% of the text after meeting with the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, this Wednesday morning. fair, 5. Among the adjustment points, the governor defended that the governance criteria of the Federative Council, which will centrally collect the Tax on Goods and Services (IBS, which will unify ICMS and ISS), appear in the text of the proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC).
“People have been saying that the backbone of the reform – broad-based taxation, the principle of fate, which is fundamental, the federative transition – has always been in agreement with São Paulo. What we have always pondered were specific issues, that is, we agree with 95% of the reform”, Tarcísio told journalists upon leaving the Ministry of Finance.
Tarcísio assessed that “we are” at a point where it will be easy to reach an understanding and that the points raised by the State are “easy and adjustable”, such as the rules for the Federative Council.
“I think that the governance of the board has to enter the PEC, because we need a qualified quorum to maintain this governance. What is the problem? Over time you have a security of this advice and having an extrapolation of functions, that would not be good. In a way, this council has to simply be an operational arm of this automatic collection system, of making credit available in a more automated way”, he defended.
The governor said that the suggestion of a Compensation Chamber, to carry out daily transfers and meeting of accounts between States, is an alternative to the Federative Council model, but that the State will not make a battle horse out of it. The objective now is to improve the governance model of this council, including the rules in the constitutional text.
“From the moment I improve the governance of the Federal Council, I can have something more algorithmic. What we are going to do here is try to build better governance, a governance that is more representative, so that we can also have a more automatic tax collection process and even allocation of credit, as already happens in some countries of the European Union ”, he pondered.
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