Senate rapporteur wants to include correction of the benefit for inflation

The senator Daniella Ribeiro (PSD-PB), rapporteur of Bill (PL) 1,026, of 2024, which deals with the reconfiguration of the Events Sector Emergency Resumption Program (Perse), will make changes to the text and, as a result, the matter will have to return to the Chamber of Deputies before going to presidential sanction.

As found out WestDaniela wants to include in the project the correction for inflation of the R$ 15 billion established as the Perse ceiling until 2026. The change increases the impact of incentives, representing a defeat for the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad.

Another change proposed by the rapporteur provides that only companies registered in the National Register of Economic Activities (CNAE) and with final decisions can access the resources of the Perse Law. Therefore, according to the senator, this will prevent large companies from being entitled to the benefit through an injunction.

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This afternoon, Daniella will meet with sector representatives to discuss the changes to the text. The vote on the matter is expected to take place on Tuesday 30th.

Authored by deputies José Guimarães (PT-CE), leader of the government in the Chamber, and Odair Cunha (PT-MG), leader of the PT in the House, Perse’s PL it was approved by the Chamber on April 23. Initially, the text progressively reduced tax benefits until they were extinguished from 2027 onwards.

The Perse text approved in plenary is a substitute for the rapporteur in the Chamber, federal deputy Renata Abreu (Podemos-SP). It was determined that tax exemption concessions for the taxes involved (IRPJ, CSLL, PIS and Cofins) be monitored every two months by the Federal Revenue Service and the extinction from the month following that in which it is demonstrated by the Executive.

These reports must contain exclusively the reduction values ​​enjoyed by qualified companies, with values ​​broken down by item of the National Classification of Economic Activities and by method of calculating the IRPJ calculation basis (real, presumed or arbitrated profit).

As for the tax reduction amounts, these must be the subject of legal discussion without finality and, therefore, must be detailed in the report.