The president of the Chamber of Deputies, deputy Arthur Lira (PP-AL), said on Friday (19) in a meeting in Rio de Janeiro, with governors from the South and Southeast, that the tax reform proposal will be voted on in plenary of the House this semester, right after the vote on the fiscal framework, scheduled for next week. “Regional development is a clear and obvious need so that we don’t have a tax reform that increases economic and structural inequalities in the country,” he said. Lira added that “based on this principle, the Chamber has been fulfilling its role with transparency, bringing all interested parties into the debate so that their suggestions, opinions, complaints and trends and concerns can be reached in the rapporteur’s text and we can make this change for legal certainty in our country for a simplification in this division” Lira also said that another concern is with the fairer tax division at the federal level. “These are discussions that we are going to have in the Federal Chamber right after the vote on the fiscal framework next week”. Meeting The governors of the South and Southeast regions met at the Guanabara Palace, seat of the state government, to evaluate tax reform proposals that are under discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. The governors of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, and Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema, did not attend the meeting. The governor of Rio de Janeiro, Cláudio Castro, opened the meeting of the South and Southeast Integration Consortium (Cosud). The meeting was requested by deputies Agnaldo Ribeiro, tax reform rapporteur, and Reginaldo Lopes, coordinator of the reform working group. Cláudio Castor said that “we are in favor of the idea of a reform in which the states can collaborate. Fundamental for Brazil, but we also think that there are positions where the states can, yes, collaborate. That’s because every decision that is taken there in Brasília ends up affecting the day-to-day of those who are governing”. The governor said he has the prospect of continuing the dialogue and debate to deepen the terms of the reform. The governor of Espírito Santo, Renato Casagrande, recalled that today the states use financial and tax incentives to be able to attract undertakings under development to their states. “Each one made their own policy and the time you take it to your destination you take that power away from the states, naturally, and Brazil has to have a regional development policy so that there is no concentration of wealth in large consumer states. This is the concern we express, because there are still many differences in this country. So, knowing the text, state recipes in each unit of our federation, was our main concern”.
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