Government limits readjustment of forum fees on Union land

MP created a 10% ceiling for 2022 based on last year’s IPCA (National Broad Consumer Price Index)

An interim measure issued by the President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) limits the readjustment of the forum and occupancy rates of Union lands to 10.06% in 2022. The value corresponds to last year’s inflation based on the IPCA (Broad Consumer Price Index).

The signature of the MP was informed on Friday night (June 24, 2022) by the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic. O text was published in an extra edition of Official Diary of the Union.

As of 2023, the entry of debts must observe the maximum percentage of updating corresponding to twice the accumulated variation of the IPCA of the previous year or 10.06%, whichever is lower.

According to the government, the measure corrects distortions of previous legislation, which forced the SPU (Secretariat for Coordination and Governance of Union Heritage) to carry out readjustments of up to five times the IPCA.

The largest variations were recorded when the PVG (Planta de Valores Genericos), informed by the municipalities – which keep 20% of the SPU collection – was updated after years of lag.

The plan is also the basis for property values ​​used by municipalities to set IPTU (Imposto Predial e Territorial Urbano) charges.

Paid every year, the forum fee is levied on land whose titleholders were on the land before demarcation as a Union area and is equivalent to 0.6% of the updated value of the property.

Currently, about 300,000 properties across the country are under the forum regime. In most cases, they are land along the coast whose occupation is allowed, but the area partially belongs to the government to guarantee national defense and free access to the sea for the population.

“With the edition of the MP, although the SPU remains obliged to follow the PVG informed by the municipalities, it is guaranteed that the readjustment of the collection of forum and occupancy fees will never be greater than 10.06%. In addition, it is worth emphasizing that many citizens may not have any increase, or even a reduction in the charge, in case of updates to less of the PVG by the municipalities“, argued the General Secretariat of the Presidency.

For this year, SPU will make the collection documents available on its website patrimoniodetodos.gov.brfor which installments will be granted in up to 5 monthly installments, with the maturity of the first installment or single installment on August 31, 2022, respecting the minimum amount of R$ 100 for each installment.

With information from Agência Brasil.