Fuel consumers must prepare their pockets. Gasoline and ethanol will rise at the end of the month, with the end of the Social Integration Program (PIS) and Social Security Financing Contribution (Cofins) exemption, which has been in effect since the second half of last year. Commenting on the January collection result, the head of the Federal Revenue’s Center for Tax and Customs Studies, Claudemir Malaquias, confirmed the reencumbrance at the end of the month. The date appears in Provisional Measure 1,157, signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on January 1st. “In fact, the MP predicted that the exemption rate would be in force until the end of this month. The reencumbrance is foreseen in accordance with the norm that is in effect”, stated Malaquias during the interview. biodiesel. These exemptions had been granted last year by former president Jair Bolsonaro. Today, Lula met with the president of Petrobras, Jean Paul Prates, to discuss the readjustment of fuel prices. With the end of the exemption, the previous rates are back in force, of R$ 0.792 per liter of gasoline A (without ethanol mixture) and R$ 0.242 per liter of ethanol. The transfer to consumers, however, will depend on the distributors and fuel stations. At the beginning of the year, when announcing the package with measures to improve public accounts, the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, stated that the recomposition of taxes will yield Rs. $ 28.88 billion to the government’s cash in 2023. In January alone, according to calculations by the Federal Revenue released today, the government failed to collect R$ 3.75 billion with the extension of the zero rate.
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